Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 24, 16 ʻOkakopa 1894 — A Sermon. [ARTICLE]
A Sermon.
— Tbe following iustmctive mon wng pic<ed np yesterday «t the coroer * f Richar«l and Beritania Street. Who the writer i s wil! rei3aio a ir,r«te'ry bnt he evident!\ knew t!,e ca’.il>er of bi« e>ngreg «ti«in. VNe rt*coromen«l him to nse “Peoro>e Puneli, «ud Uko tbe Lberty to reprodace bis pulpit-speecb: My Beb)bl>e<l Brndders if dere am anyfing wot makeH me tire«i it am de air ob gudness wot suirounds snm peepul in dis world. How offen we heah one iu>tn wnnk bis n.ouf an tell how H-nart he am, how gudo he am, an how different all bis niyb>irn «m. Der am sum peepnl dat aui so eberl«sting }>ure an luhly in dere owu eves, so fur «bove dere n>«yburs in mor«lerty «n gudness. dat I c«ff n wnn<ler wot «m de in«ttnr wid de angel Gibrael dat be do >nt gib bis born a littlesqueek 111 dcre ears and gib dem a pair nf wings so dey cud tly np tobebben insted ob fuling «lere time twav mongst «le pur trasb roun Honolulu. Sposin dey dn mount : ,loft intu Je ethenrial spear, dos yu tink dey wiil be satisfied to breve de saroo air as de eommun mgols an wo«r de same kind ob wing? No brndders dis clnss ob (onolulu angels «i« t b.iilt dat way, and dey will w«ut ter straiu «le ««ir ob bebben nn wear back xcksbun au triple jinted wings lat will leve a streke ob vermil L'.-im glory in der wake, so as tu gib de pression dat dey am eben painliu de clouds ob bebben red as dey fink dey bab deun beur ll«t bruddcrs we shnddent kiek, f«r if dere am enny plase dot c«n «se ennv ob dis kind ob sperior gudaess doan t bold on tu dem. but let em fly away, fur dey «m tn gud fur dis terrestial spear. \Vc nll luk forrard tu a bettur I wurld dau dis, but it ara wid de -pectastbon Jat we am going tu miss sum ob de fules we mete 011 «le stretes ob Houolulu. But wot knrageraeut kan we bab if de lokul angols am going to keep on makin revolutions «n puttin on le saroe stile ou as little munny is dey bub heali? Dey meke us fired fur de sbort time iiean, om «*-t -•< wi pui u|> wid «11 der nonsense fur all terudy? lf it am so, lets tlo«t a imerted Co. an go tn de udder plase au enjoy life, fur tu seo dern «e«b «ra hell, but tu put np wid t in de wnrl to kuiu wud be hel!er. De nex wurl am wide euuff :'ur most peepnl tu get on komfertably tugedder if we kan on!v kepe out such trash wlio fiuks dey «m de cro:ue ob existence, an if le same nosbmis mus foIler dem in do warl tn kum. 1 ho|>e dey wil uot spilo cberv town in bebben or hell but go rent. sum little <orner iu ono plase or d« udder uul Iissen t« dero own swete voices, fnr enny ob de ole reserleuts hoali wont want tu spend eternerty watcliii.g enny moah qb Jere fule axsb«us after dey ahake leni heah. Sam ob de grutest sieuterists who bab viserted Honolulu say it ara «II fulisbness tn
try an pet all ob ilis town Iokated in de samo plaso in do nex wurl. fur de different grades ob gudness am ob sucb n qnalerty dat el>en if yn filled de grabes wid cloride ob lime do same smell wud stick tu dem wen dey crosse<.l do dnrk ribber. Dey wnd all rnn in de snme klieka, nono, ob de nugols knd mete permiskerusly at a pienie, fur yn wudnent kno wedder Missus Brown wnd like tu pUy de barp undsing wid Missus Jones; den de mercbant Jobuson who borrod so mncb muuny from de bank on a poor nole, mite object tu mete de sbop kepnr Stuitb case he didu’t beloug to de klnb. So brudders an si$terus 1 fink de bes way fur dose wbo bab cluded to lib an die in Honolulu am tu form priv.it-* klubs, an make rangmeuts fur de fust one ob der knowd wot goes tu bebben or bell to buy a ko»-ner lot an prepare fur de mea bars wot am tu folkr. lt «m de oc!y way I c«n see for enny pleasore in de nex worl. for >t woa nebber do tu let em «11 pile in w,doot sum kind of prep«ras buu» De dekuns will kindly Uke np« kollec»bQn tu penml de }>astur ta bab some deben sbus9 printed su we kan flole a company fut dis cougrogasLun, so we woo t bub to sosLcralu wid do*e ob do cbuicb dowu iu dor im Uoek-