Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-05-22
AFRICAN LURE
STRONG WITH
DAN CRAWFORD
Famous English Mission Work.
er Is Heard By Mems League
OF Central Union Church

IN Honolulu. must be heard 20 be APP
preeiated, ID the opinion OF those WIN
listened to the address which he de-
liyefed at The meeting OF the Mems
League ii Central Union church last
night. No report can hope 20 repro
dlce his charm Of manner, his drama
tic presentation, the spell Of his broad
Scotch accent, the merry twinkle in
his eye. To understand his perfect
natur6lness, his frank difsctness and
his absolutely unsfudied style, one
must hear him.
ii iiitroducihg Mr.. Crawford Mr.
Garter stated IN part as follows:
1T Is said OF our guest Of honor
this evening that short time ago he
was unknown, nobody had heard Of
him: suddenly he burst out from the
heart OF Africa, swept through Great
Britain and crossed the United States
II ; manner such as no other man
has ever eQualled. You all know the
story Of the old woman who said
I'VE heard the gospel preached all my
life long, now what want b 20 see q
little 81 Il before ! die. Had that
old woman been present here tonight;
she lire You and ! would hase the
obpoffunity OF seeing the living en1-
bUdimenf Of the gospel Think Of It.
years In the long grass,
one Thousand miles from the nearest
most az civilization. lost In the dim
NEST recess6s Of the darkest cOntin.
ent And yet while hunting human
s0ills. orr guest has found and seen
with his own eyes that which Living.
SION sought u vain. the source Of
Eeypts lffegixing, Nile.
Our guest. ike Cecil Rhodes, has
found great wealth In Africa, not.
that OF gold and ivory but the riches
Of human life and human souls.
Those savages told him that God
must Be angry because Of his Sill
ence. and therefore our guest Is on his
way back 10 them to take them His.
gospel and to break that silence. II
a indeed rare privilege to INTRODUCES
to You Mr. Dan Crawford.
Mr.. Crawford spoke, IN part. a. fol
3 Il am glad / am going back to-
africa: glad was shut up for more.
than twenty-five years, and glad 4
to0k Il. IS You might say, head-oFl,
heinz shut OF from al supplies. The
longest wait T had for letter was.
two years and nine months was
shut away from those cemeteries Of!
dka6 books called libraries out on
the lonely frontier Of the world, hear
ing the voice Of God. | am 30 sorry
fhsf vnil are beginning to lose the
best voice Of eternity that the soul OF
nan has ever heard.
ssWiIl sy6n look at this blank sheet
81 papef. Please imagine il To. be q
man 81 Africa Half It in two. Now
half Il In two the other way and
there. iii the very middle Of the mid
are IS my postal address. Twas right
down there Oh, It's q great life. ana.
4 grand life! To. give the native e
chance; to 50 into q hostile camp arm
cd only with walking stick. Yes
Won have 1 gun, bat You have Il In
The SANE sense that ron have UNI
ljfeTIas here. You keep your gun out
az sielft when yon 60 into an enemy's
town. You say Here am. II there's
t0ine to be- any unpleasahtness let's
have it now. And You find the can.
nfbal 4 great, good hearted pal. Who
WIN do IFS best to give you 2 good
time. Sc.
q want to tell yoa o little about
NON. never arranged q lecture in
NV life. but did want to tell you
something about these people. the
further I penetrated into the lar IN
terior. the darker the day, until y
fouhd 3 veritable cannibal tribe
weepihg the same old aft-broketl
tears. smiling the same old smiles
ven. even summing the same old puns!
Yes. let me tell you about one pun
heard. One chief was making 3 col
lection Of bones you can imagine the
variety land another IN speaking OF
Il said. Yes, he has large coilecs1
ton; but why make any bones about
that! 81. !.
aBy the by, was astounded to find
the cannibals tip-top gentlemen, arm.
ed to their finger tips with hnisn
and finess, excruciatingly polite. You
can,t sneak to him standing, you
mnsf first be seated. You have to-
your remarks to him
throtieh third person You can't
sneak direct, nor can he answer dr.
reet Therefore you get two hearings.
Mind YOU, they are tremendously po.
lite, II q native king brings you
box az this light temperance beer tor
p0nf men who are working In the
iield he viii say ii . dispafaging on
hard way, Z have brought You some
bottles Of wSter! They do not IKE TO
deny 1 request SO they soften the
denial with the formula: 7 am not
refusing. They never say bluntly,
Are YOU Quite weir, and i'm their Gus
torn TREY beat the Frenehman who
asks YOU, is Mr.. Smith quite well !!
putting the question in the third per
son. They say. Are all the Mr.
Smiths-twenty thousand Mr.. Smiths
quite well?' They have thirtytwo
lenses to their verbs, twelve vocal
voices: Mr.. Gramniarian, and nine
teen genders to their nouns. In
sneaking to Mrs. Pankhurst tShe is
quite pal of mine1 about these nine
teen genders l said obviously IN
Afiica there, Is room for the suf-
ffagette.' -. -.
yes. the cannibal Is tip-top gen.
Sf..-s.S.z phl.-rA 10 coma objection hang.