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

| in Honolulu, must be heard TO be ap-
precfated, IL the opinion Of those who
listened to the address which he de
/ iivered at the. meeting OF the Mems
League in Central Union church last
night No report can hope to repro
! iuce 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
naturalness, hts frank directness and
| his absolutely ufstndied style, one
must hear him.
In introducing Mr. Crawford Mr..
Carter 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
in d 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 Is to see o
little Of It before die Had that
old woman been present here tonight,
Ishe like yon and would have the
opportunity Of seeing the living en-
| hodiment 81 the gospel Think OF 4.
ITWenty-two years In the long grass,
| one thousand miles from the nearest
post Of civilization, lost in the dim
NEST recesses Of the darkest contin.
ant: And yet while hunting human
souls. our guest has found and seen
with bis own eyes that which Living
ston sought In vain, the source Of
Egypt,s HfegiyiRg Nile.
s.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 TO them to take them His
gospel and to break that silence. IL
Is indeed rare privilege to introduce
to you Mr.. Dan Crawford.
Mr.. Crawford spoke. In part, as fol
lows
Il am glad ] am going back to-
Africa; glad was shut up for more
than twenty-two years, and glad !
took ii, as you might say, shead-cn.
being shut on from all supplies. TheI
longest wait I had for e letter was
two years and nine months. was
shut away from those cemeteries OF
dead books called libraries out on
the lonely frontier of the world, hear.
ing the voice Of God. / am so sorry
that you are beginning to lose the
best voice Of eternity that the soul OF
man has ever heard.
.sWin you look at this blank sheet
of paper. Please imagine Il TO be 2
man Of Africa Half It in two. Now
half it In two the other way and
there. in the very middle Of the mid
die IS my postal address ] was right
down there oh. it's q great life, and
grand life! 1o give the native 4
chance: to 20 into . hostile camp arm.
ed only with walking stick. Yes.
you have gun, but you have It ~
the same sense that you nave UNI.
brellas here You keep your gun out
Of sight when you go into an eremys
town. You say Here ! am. Il there's
going to be any leasantness lets
have It now, And You find the can
nibal q great, good-hearted pal, who
Wiii do his best to give you q good
time.
q want to tell you little about
HEM. + never arranged lecture In |
nv life. but did want to tell you
something about these people. The
further I penetrated Into the far IN
terror. the darker the day, until III
found 4 9eritable cRhnibRl tribe
weeping the same old heart broken
tears, smiling the same old smiles, /
YES. even punhihg the same old puns! /
yes. let me tell you about one pun |
heard. One chief was making q col
lection Of bones you can imagine the /
land another in speaking OF /
1t said, Yes, he has q large collec.
ton: but why make any bones about
thatp
aBy the by. / was astounded to find
the cannibals tip-top gentlemen, arm
ed to their finger tips with finish I
and finess, overwhelmingly polite. You
can't sneak to him standing, you
must FIRST be seated. You have to
your remarks to him
through third person. You can't
speak direct, nor can he answer di.
rect. Therefore you get two hearings.
Mind you, they are tremendously po-
lite. If native ling brings you a
box OF this light Temperance beer for
your men who are working Ia the
Held ne win say ih q disparaging of.
hand wal, Il have brought yon some
bottles of water They do not like to-
deny q request 30 they soften the
denial with the formula: I am not
They never say bluntly,
Are You quite well 2 and In their Gus
tom they heat the Frenchman who
asks You, Is Mr.. Smith quite well? Il
putting the question In the third per
son. They say, Are all the Mr..
Smiths twenty thousand Mr.. Smiths
quite wellr They have thirty-two
lenses to their verbs, twelve vocal
voices, Mr.. Grammarian, and nine
teen genders to their nouns. In
speaking to Mrs. Pankhurst (She is
lutte a pal of mirie) about these nine h
.een genders said obviously in
AFRICA there is room for the suf- Il
iragette,' ii
yes, the cannibal is a tip-top gen h
tlaman There is some objection hang