Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-03-22

The Hawaiian Church Chronicle, of
which Bishop Rsstarick is editor. car.
RIGS this interesting editorial in
Ia esq edition:
Raymond Robbins and Fred h.
Smith of the Men and Religion For
ward Movement have come aid gone.
These visitors spoke to large eongre-
cations of men, From their first APP
pearance at the dinner given at the
Commercial Club until their de
parture, they were gladly heard
With an acknowledged feeling on
the part of the writer of some ten
dency towards travelling evangelists,
he is glad to say that these two men
commended themselves by their san.
ity OF thought and speech. TheS did
not teach that this excess, or that sin.
vas thu cause of all vice AID crime
They did not charge at windmilfs or
harD en- don't co this. or dom do
that. Thew had no paaecaa TO cf'Nr
One stated plainly, clearly. and In
mastery way the principles OF Chris-
ten social service The other spoke
with burning language OF the indif
ference of men to religion and the
reed of God in the individual life.
The two-fold message was needed and
WIS we'll delivered.
Thesa visitors We're lavr,rn s-seak-
ing to men. But they took esneciai
pains to emphasize the necessity of
organized Christianity, At the Opera
House Mr. Smith smoke powerfully on
the neglect of worshin nv mon. He
did not hesitate to saw that the DAYS
of Professionalism were numbered mn
less men awakened to the necessity
of Worship.
II is q feet in this rer1~1 that The
bodies in the United States which
SHOW :uFs ant'sl ~~owth nra almost
ALWAYS those in which worship is EN-
phasized.
Professionalism.
The o~lv words uttered nv Mr..
rrlith which rranld eritieiye wee
those In which he set .orth the real
noint of weakness .nf the Pro eTtnnt
position. He IS rcportod N have sail
"If | believed that the Bible did not
provide he'll for betrayers of Young
girls. would lamp II under NV feet"
1t does not matter to us whether he !
said tbesa words or not. but they ext
actly state the American Protestant
idea.
In the old DAYS Abolitionis's nuno
away the Bible because the Bile did
not teach abolition. Some Prohihi- /
tionists today have flung the Bible I,
7wav becanra it does not teach Pro-
hibition. What does the above mean?
II means thai tho Prnteetant consid-
ers that he. in his individual person
nlity is the Judge Of the true and the |
false, of what Is Christian doctrine !
and what is not.
As matter of fact. Jesus Christ |
dealt with eternal princirlees and not
with methods. The New Testament /
shows that He taught hrotherly love
because of a heavenly Father This
principle was hound 20 abolish slavery
In time, and will abolish Injustice and
unfairness to labor in time.
Just so the principle that we are
SONS of God and that our bodies are
the TEMPLES of the Holy Ghost will.
when realized. make intemperance inn
possible and so abolish IT.
So with impurity it Is not by point |
ing out that sin especially. that i'm
purity is to be abolished, but it is by
the development of the truth among
men and women that "the pure In
heart shall see God"
The Catholic petition as opposed to
the Protestant conception of the indi,
vidual as criterion OF doctrine and
truth is the Catholic conception of the
deposit of great central and eternal
truths in the church, and the proof
of these by the records in the New
Testament, We church peopfe do not
go to Holy Scripture to pick out this
text .and that text to make belief
or to bolster up this or TINT teaching.
We go to it to prove that what the
church teaches now Is as she taught
in the beginning. The Apostles creed |
is the chart bv which we sail into the |
sea of Holy writ. We 90 there not to
pick ont orr religion but to prove that
what the Church teaches is the truth
taught by the Apos les. There is a
great deal of difference in these two
methodS The first or secthrian method.
the cause of numberless divisions, has |
been found wanting. Men have ceased
to argue about little things in re-
ligion. They want to think of the
great things and fundamental truths. |
The church has always emphasized |
the eternal truths and has left small !