The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-03-03
ISSUES
LENTEN LETTER
Special Services, Covering Forty.
psy Period Arranged by st.
Andrew Cathedral.
(From Monday Advertiser

cries OF addresses which be has pre-
Jared for delivery On Sunday nights
turing Lent. His subject last night
vas Lite and Its Meaning AMI wa
1 splendid and scholarly effort, being
Intended mainly for young people, anu
ealt with the fundamental principles
1 the Christian faith and the carrying
4 them into everyday life. The ser!
5on was preceded by hearty service
With familiar hymns by the united
hoirs on the Cathedral Close.
The lenten season will be notably oh,
,erved at the cathedral with services
n charge Of Bishop Restarick Canon
William Ault and the Rev. L. Knoll
N charge Of the Hawaiian congrega-
ton. Besides the usual Sunday ser.
vices, which will be held Mt the same
hours, there will be daily morning
prayer at eight .forty.fve o clock, daily
evening prayer except Friday at Ave.
zen o o'clock, and holy communion on
Thursdays at seven 0 clock IN the. morn.
ing.
Special Services Are Arranged
Special services will include holy
communion on Tuesday mornings at ten
o'clock; services and addresses on We'd
iesday nights at seven.thirty O'Clock !;
,ddresses by DIR. Mildred StaIey Thurs.
lay mornings at teni 10 clock, and chill
rem s services on Friday afternoons at
our o'clock. Fridays In Lent will be
kept as days Of intereession from>nin
i'cloek in the morning unfit fonr
o'clock in the afterpobn according to
arrangements. ~ aass
The Wednesday evening addresses
will be made by Chaplain William Reese
'cott of the Second Infantry, United
states Army, whose subjects will be;
March 4, "Temptati0Hr; March IL,
Faith; March r is, % Example =;
March 25, APPRECIATION April ],
HObe9ieneeT, April 8, worship"
Calling attention to Lenten duties,
Bishop Restariek has issued the follow
ing letter;
Bishop Restarick Issues Letter.
sfafy Dear People ~ am not pes.
sipifst. In fact, many have often
thought me too optimistic, but / have
seriously come to the conclusion that
IL there were ever time since the later
days Of the Roman Empire, when men
needed to recognize that life Is a serious
,natter and not mere round of pleas
.6rable sensations, that time is the
present. A rtE,s
LENT is a protest against the idea
hat the body and mind are all that
onstitute human being and that the
hief am of man or woman is "a
i've pleasure to the senses and to ease
he mind Of care. A large part Of so.
iety today has very little in its life
o show that God and the relation of
nan TO God, ever enter into considera.
ion.l Time and thought and energy are
avishly given to sthe pleasing Of the
iye and ear and taste and sense Of
leautv 70 those who have leisure, Those
who toll do SO with such energy that
hey often rush for a relief from care
nd lose themselves in, excitement and
ratification of the senses.
/, Explains Gall Of Lent.
cit is our part as Christians to Just
ify the Christian faith by showing that
is the center of our own spiritual
life and Of tbe spiritual life of the
world. The call Of Lent is this: Stop,
hink Of your individual responsibility
or your life and all that it means to
Almighty God Its further purpose is
aid you in cutting yourself off for
brief period from even accustomed
nd legitimate social pleasures, and like
he Psalmist, seek 70 know the mean,
. ng Of the Perplexities and problems Of
life in the House Of God. ,,a.n
SIT is easy for clergy to moralize
. nd to speak Of decadenee because of
, lress or amusement, but while We rec.
'gnize this, yet we are forced to the
'elief that there is a growing DISPOSE.
ion to forget God and such forgetful-
less inevitably brings periods of sin
md deprayity upon a nation or a race.
No nation and no race, whatever its
'oasted power of mental ability, has
been able TO survive degeneracy Of NOR.
VI tone. The prophets Of Israel con.
inually warned the people that If they
lid not turn to God disaster would
ONE upon them, and behind their words
vas the unacceptable law Of God. Some
lines conditions arise which so alarm
men that they turn to God. The de.
ay of religious life is bringing with
: inevitably the decay of moral tone
which is seen in hundreds Of ways in
ny community. 1t is to recall men to
he great question Of responsibility to
Tod for life, that Lent comes year by
year. .t.s 4 stti =
Asks Assistance for Clergy.
owe beseeeh yon to help us of the
leroy to make this Lent a time of
rayer, Of repentance, OF renewal OF
'ows, and of drawing near to God. We
work here at disadvantage on ac.
:Ount of the fact that this is the sea.
con when visitors and friends come to
he Islands, but we certainly can ask
church people to be as consistent as
far as possible and to lie as quiet and
rnostentatious as is practicable, in
hose things that they feel obliged to do.
We shall be at some disadvantage at
the cathedral because the daily services
must be held in the memorial hall, but
his has been fitted up as a chapel and
: is hoped that those will attend the
ervices, who can do so.
Sin this day Of an interest in orion.
al mysticism and philosophy, it is for,
innate that we have with us one who
Nas lived nearly quarter Of a century
n India and who has mazda A studv in