The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-01-16
SAME REASON FOR
NEGLECT TO VOTE
Church Attendance Is . Duty Man
Owes to Fellowmen--Is a
Real Obligation.
By Perlsy I. Horne.

The article iniThe Advertiser Of Sun.
day, January 4, on "why Go TO
Church" win necessarily bring wide
comment. Few men knowingly neglect
duties that seem to them real obliga-
tions. II men could oe made to feel
that attendance ut church was as great
a duty as attendance to business obi.
cations, there would be no lament about
'tempty pewsv But the majority Of
nchiehurehgoefs, who in every way,
measured by the worlds yardstick, arc
the best cftizens, have not thought par.
tienlarly on fhis subject.
The institution Of the church is reeog-
nized, The children as rule are In
Sunday school. The sabbath Il oh.
served IN so far rs regular business
ID epncefned. The sabbath is accepted
~ a part Of the general order of things,
II Is here and II Is observed perfume
torily because il is,hefe. So the weeks
go BY with little or no thought Of any
obligation upon the Individual. This
same lack Of personal responsibility
causes many to neglect their obliga-
tions at the primaries and at the polls.
wish to give mn extract from the
writings of one of America 3 great think.
ers, Edward Everett Hale, on this sub.
ject Of church attendance. DR.. Hale
says: People toll me sometimes that
the Puritgps plan is becoming old.
fashioned, the plan by which people
rha HsI % ah a.. "a. H.,
any creed, simply agreed to walk to.
gether in their effort to abate tempta.
tons and to keep passion down, And
( loften hear moral voluptuaries, who
| cxpect to please themselves and to es.
cape from Temptation at the same mo-
Hent, who tell me indeed that public
] Worship does not attract them. They
say they prefer TO commune with God
alone, perhaps by q habbHng brook.
| 10 not see what preference has to dc
with it. ] never heard that anybody
asked what you preferred. do moi
now that anyone cares. That IL moi
the question. What does the world
need = That is the question. To that
| Iues tioh the answer is that the world
leeds more union and less separation
4 needs more Of the together and
less of the alone and 50 the world
needs that, like man, you hear youl
brothers burdens, instead Of posturine
under your own. let each man apply
that rule by giving his countenance
presence and help in some religious so
siety. And let him give such sym
patty really, with his whole heart LIE,
i come Just as you give your attention
TO the Affairs Of bank in which YOU
are q director or of a railroad whief
you have set out to build Z p'sa~ q.
Everybody must help in not now
lnd.then help, not an occasional at
Tendance on Sunday, when the day i,
not fine enough for drive. 1t is tn,
sort Of loyal support which YOU give X
the othor institutions which you be
lteye in. do not ask man to e
regularly to church because II feeds hin
Or clothes him but because the country
nay nankind-in thousand necessitie
needs public worship. If the MAJ
turn on me, If he say:'What good viii
It do met Why ! have only to reply
Dear friend. you cannot help yourself
unless II be in your heart first of al
to help your fellow men. > ~ ,r.,.- z,