Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-08-28
ASK BILLY SUNDAY.

Editor Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
l. Sir: Now that ii seems TO be- a
fact that Billy Sunday is to visit this
territory, and at an expense to the
public that, in the writer's estimation,
could be far more profitably employed
for the benefit of the people of the
territory. notwithstanding that the
/ value received will SAVIOR of religion
and salvation. would it not be well to
prepare few pointed questions to be
/ put to Mr. Sunday with a request for
answers. Possibly we might derive
! more real good from the answers he
will give to our questions than to fill
our largest auditorium to suffocation
each night and listen an hour or so to
religious rantings and the smashing
| of chairs, that in the end will not en-
tighten US one iota regarding religious
stumbling blocks that now seem thick
g strewn along that straight and mar
row path
Putting aside the fact that this ter
ritory can compare fayorably with
the states and other possessions as
regards the number OF churches to
the square foot, and those churches
we'll attended, as the pouring forth OF
the congregations on Sundays will
give testimony, am of the opinion
that there is not one worshiper who
does not entertain a doubt, self-ask-
ed question, What is beyond?" No
one is sure. No one knows. No one
can know. Here we are confronted
with the question that Is as old as the
world, After -what?"
Ministers, philosophers, poets, mu-
sicians, have all, in their chosen line,
written, spoke or sang on this great
theme. And still that filmy cloud of
doubt ever floats across the soul sky.
Why not make this one of the ques-
lions to put to Mr.. Sunday? After
death-what?" Does he know any
more about it than we do? | think
not, but it would be of great interest
TO hear what he might say.
One of our public men, one whose
footballs have been heard in the halls
of Congress for many years, has writ
ten his life, largely the public side,
but the private-the family part-has,
in small degree entered into the
work. In the closing chapters of this
life work the public man tells of how
his wife and children have all crossed
into the Great Beyond, and regarding
the possibilities of reunion with
those loved ones, he says:
"As / think of it now, do not know
where obtained the strength to sur
yiye all these sorrows. ! have no
great fear of death, except the natural |
dread of the physical pain which usu-
ally accompanies it. / certainly wish |
beyond any words | have power to |
express that ] could have greater
assurance that there will be reunit- !
ing with those we love and those who |
have loved us in some future world; |
but from my reading of Scripture, and |
even admitting that there is a here
after, 4 cannot find any satisfactory
Could believe that should meet the |
loved ones who have gone before / do
not know but that | should look for |
ward with pleasure to the passing
across" Not having this belief, | am
quite content to stay where am as
long as | can, and finally when old |
Charon appears to row me over the |
River Styx, shall be ready to CO. |
This great question have asked of
those whose life work is to point the
way and the answer received in
every instance has been: The Di-
vine Revelation must be accepted or
rejected"
The next question that presents it
self in this connection is, Is it Di-
vine Revelation This perplexing
question was even entertained by the |
disciples, and it is recorded that they
put this great question to the Master,
who answered: Il go to. prepare a
place for you; and if go to prepare
a place for you will come again and
receive you unto myself. that where !
] am there We may be also"
Why not request Mr.. Sunday to de-
vote one or more evenings to answer
ing, so well as he may, the question
at the beginning of this letter.
II Il