Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-04-24
The Duty of the Hour For America
A SERMON.

eternal and ultimate realities and
I, ideals.
1t will, therefore, be wise and we'll,
instead of lamenting the national mis-.
deeds of others, to make this the
solemn occasion when we turn our
eyes inward and seek in an inviolable
solitude OF our national personality to
stand face to face with the divine
reality, and having judged our broth
ers, IL we so must, proceed then to
Judge ourselves.
The blame is universal. We have all
assented to a so-called balance Of
power, equipoised upon a sword, with
bullets in the scale for weights. We
have all agreed to secret alliances
other than for reason and justice. We
all share the peril of the sword. The
differences are In degree and not in
principle and kind. 4 i, - Z
The conflict in Europe was no mere
accident The ultimate causes of her
woe are selfish ambitions, material
competition, unfair advantages, suspi-
cions, the doctrine that might makes
right, the confusion of moral with
physical power, the ruthless law of
the survival OF the fittest; in all which
the militarists have been ably sup
ported by the intellectuals and the
aristoerats Of the old world. 1t arises
out of a false philosophy of human
life, false conception of~racial re-
lationships and false view of human
ger Of these ultimate causes?
Oh. II the nations Of Europe had
only thought less about their foes with
opt and more about their foes within
We blame. them because they are not
democratic either in form or in fact,
but perhaps there is still greater dan:
ger to the nation that has the form
without the fact; that raises hopes
before its people which it does not
enable them to realize, and ideals be-
fore the world which it. sadly fails to
demonstrate within itself
The nations are still suspicious Of
US. Japan has an. attitude of watch
full waiting as to whether or not we
are just people. China has her al
ternate hope and doubt and is mer.
curial in her temper toward us. The
little nations to the south are not quite
sure Of us and the most hopeful sign
of this day and generation was that
three of them did try us once and did
not find us wanting
We need to arm ourselves against
them; yes, but we shall do it best by
disarming them Of their doubts and
their lingering suspicious. Confidence
is the only ultimate security of the
relations between nations. The un-
selfish return of China's indemnity was
worth at least one battleship to this
nation.
The new patriotism will begin to
transform the world when one nation
makes her own people see that to
love one people truly is to love all
peoples, and that the loss of a ma
tons honor is infinitely worse than
the loss OF land and that her service
to other nations is the measure of her
greatness.
Mexico is really waiting to Sc
whether we shall send into her mids
the messengers of light. And now tn
eyes OF the whole world are on III
1t does not yet know whether our d,
mocracy is real or speeious, an
whether the whited sepulchres wit
out are inwardly filled with dead men
bones. The eyes of God are on Ii
At this moment the vineyard is
our possession and it is ours to sd
whether or not, in us, the parab
shall be fulfilled But if our ow
house only can be set in order. u
shall, under the hand of God. becon
the worlds messiah. By sef-dist
pline alone is moral domination WI
and the surest way to protect OF
selves without is to purify ourselv
within.
And now, when all else has brok