Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 175, 20 April 1891 — Page 4

KA LEO O KA LAHUI.

"E Mau ke Ea o ka Aina i ka Pono."

 

Marriage a Divine Institution.

 

  We rejoice with the angels when we see the editor of the Bulletin look at the Holy Scriptures, in order to find out by whom marriage was instituted, for what purpose it was ordained, and how much publicity the records give of the ceremony, and what were the gifts and the amount of dower given, &c., that the husband received. As he seems to fear, by his quotations from the Bible, receiving to much light on the subject, we will help him, and others who have only the lower instincts for their guid, to a better knowledge of the marriage ordinance as instituted by the Creator. 

ORIGIN.

  Marriage, like the Sabbath was of divine origin; and was instituted in the garden of Eden, which is briefly describe thus: "And the rib, which the Lord had taken from man, made he a woman, and he brought her unto the man," Gen. 2:22

OBJECT.

  "So God created man in his own image, i the image of God created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it." Gen. 1:27, 28; for "he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited." Isa. 45:18.  2. "And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him." Gen. 2:18.

  Thus from the Creator's own language, we find that the marriage ordinance was for the elevation, and refinement of man by association with true womanhood, as well as help to him in his temporal welfare. The object then was to populate the earth and to render him happy.

PLAN.

  To accomplish this two fold purpose, God ordained that man should have only one wife, not many wives, neither a numberless number of concubines.

  "Therefore shall man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife. [not runaway, nor rob his wife and children] and they [twain] shall be one flesh." Gen. 2:24.

  Every other form of marriage outside of the plan of God, is unholy. It is the most sacred relation that can exist between the two sexes. It is not a matter of what a father may have to give with his daughter, nor is it one to be made public like that of animals at a cattle show, assome of our editors encourage the community to believe.

 

ORIGINAL PLAN SUSTAINED.

 

  "Neither shall thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her;   *   *   *   *  besides her in the life time."  Lev. 18:18. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. For the Lord the God of Israel, saith he hateth putting away." Mal. 2:15.

  Christ said: "From the beginning of the Creation God made them male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his father; and mother, and cleave to his wife and they twain shall be one flesh; so they are no more twain. but one flesh. What therefore God hat joined together let no man put asunder." Mark. 10:6,9. "It hath been said; whosoever shali put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement; but I say unto you, that whosoever shall put away his wife saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery; and, whosever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery. Matt. 5:31, 32.

  Paul said: "Let every one of you in particular so love his wife [not her fathers money] even as himself; and the wife see that she reverance her husband." Eph. 5:33. "A bishop then must be blameless the husband of one wife." "Let the deacons be the husband of one wife."

 

Kawaiahao Church.

 

  "It is written, my house is the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves."

  In the desecration of a temple of worshipdedicated to God. it seems to us a profanity to use it for any other purpose, except as a place of worship. The protestant denominations, that follow this practise, may be right in many things, but according to scripture they are far behind those from whom they have seceded, and among some of the worse features of the many delusions under which they labor, is the misuse of the church and of religion to raise money for philanthropic or charity purposes. This can be conducted in other and more appropriate houses than that which is set apart for holy work. The tabernacle in the wilderness and the temple at Jerusalem, never were rightfully used for the purpose of raising money for any charity. It is no wonder that religion is a reproach when the rulers of the synagogues are willing to take more than their scripts and staffs to go and to preach the gospel with. Christ the example and his disciples lived and died poor in the thmgs of this world, but rich in faith and humility.

 

Justtice and Equality.

 

EDITOR KA KEO

  I wish to call your attention to a few mis-statements of fact and argument contained in Thursday's English article headed "Justice and Equality vs. Color and Party." As to facts: you state that Mr. Oat, a foreigner, took the place of Mr. Hart, a native. Mr. Oat is Hawaiian born; and unless you are unwilling to be bound by your own argument, his being a white man does not operate against him. Therefore it is evident on your own showing, that the difference in salary was the measure of difference in ability, at least in the opinion of the Post Master General, who is himself Hawaiian born.

  2 In Potter's case,. his first appointment to government position was as Secretary of the Board of Health, an office then fairly going begging, having been voluntarily vacated by Mr. G. W. C. Jones, an almost life-long resident of the Kingdom, who is intermarried with the native race,l and most popular with and considerate of the rights of Hawaiians. His (Potter's) later appointment on his "resignation" from the Board of Health can in no way be charged to Mr. Bishop who has been absent many months from the kingdom. It is well known that Mr. Smith. the Secretary of the Board, a Hawaiian born, and a special friend to the native people in reality made the appointment. Strangely enough, however, you forget to mention the Mr. Potter "resigned" from the Bd. of Health, by order. specially to make room for a native.

  3 Mr. Evans probably "resigned" jsut as Mr. Potter did--to make room for a native Hawaiian; or perhaps because he was getting too mcuh monthly for the service. At any rate, it was not because he "carried a gun" in '87 that he received the appointment, as he was not even a member of the League.

  4 Neither was Mr. Carter a member of the League. But he was a very enthusiastic member of the National Reform Party. if all accounts be true.

  5 Among the chief immediate causes of the revolution were some of the bitter race articles published in the Elele., then owned by Mr. Gibson, who bring taxed with it enplained (and this is a notorious fact) that Mr. Testa wrote them and had them published without his knowledge or consent. In such case would it be your policy, Mr. Editor, to retain that gentelmen in a government office, with conditions changed making your party a successful revolution party?

  Now, as to inferences: If what I have said is correct in fact your conclusions are all groundless. And when you advocate the principles that the present ministry should make appointments from the political Party which they are supposed to represent, [and this party principle is admitted and acted upon everywhre but in Hawaii]. you knock the bottom from your arguments in reappointment by the revolution cabinet, even if they had made a "clean sweep." and appointed to every office staunch political adherent.

  But as a matter of fact, that cabinet did nothing of the kind As every one knows, they kept many of the most rabid adherents of the old regime in important and lucrative offices and to that extent entirely ignored the political services of those by whose efforts they had acquired power. In fact their conduct in that respect so alienated a great number of the reformers of 1887 as to make the national reform party possible 1889-90.

  The fact is Mr. Editor, you have mistaken a few official acts of the present and late ministries as causes which should be rather attribated to our wretched political system, which makes government by a party praticaily impossible, and reduces it to a matter of pure personal favoritisum. The revolutionary cabinet was indeed the only one for many years which represented anybody or anything from a political standpoint, being the unanimous choice at the time of appointment, of the dominant political party, as was shown by the succeeding election returns of forty-severn out of fifty-eight members of the Legislature being chose to support them: and the subsequent opposition developed even in the first session of that legislature was in great measure by the refusal of the cabinet to act apon the same party principles which you Mr.

Editor now say should be followed by the present cabinet.

  Article 41 of the constitution, which was intended by the framers thereof to provide for the cabinet representing the majority has entirely failed in practise. Once dismissed (or resigned), the appointment is the absolute prerogature of the sovereign. Two several times new cabinets have been appointed since the fall of the revolutionary cabinet; and on both occassions the objects sought by the constitution were entirely ignored--the appointing power being exercised purely in the direction of personal favoritism [so far as not interfered with by outside or "black-stairs" coercion] without the slightest regard to claim or merits from a political party standpoint. The result is that whereas, before the revolution, we had one autocrat, we now have four each supreme in his own sphere: and dominant party is utterly powerless for a term of two years between sessions of the Legislature. Even then, a vote of want of confidence is likely to be (as it has been) prevented by a fear that a bad cabinet may be succeeded by a worse.

  But "this is another story," and it is proposed to say now only this: that until the Hawaiian politican becomes more or less than human, the existing system must be changed before the majority can be fairly represented, or we can expect the unchecked action of four pretty antocrats to result in the greatest good to the greatest number.

                    BYSTANDER.

 

ON DIT.

 

  That the Queen's motives are good, and that she begins to realise the mistakes made--there is yet hope of popular government under her Majesty's reign.

 

  That the Bulletin man is mad because his best subscribers are dropping hime to take up the LEO.

 

  That the Annie Haley opium. they say, has been planted at Kahoolawe. Here is a chance for the Prince Pater of the future, and the Prince of the Detectives to unearth the stuff.

 

  That the Hawaiian Government proposes to send Hon. R. W. Wilcox, as High Commisioner to settle the difficulty between Italy and the United States, and Dr. Lyons, as Secretary, in order to get them away before the next election campaign comes on.

 

  That the Marshal is endeavoring to do his duty manfully, but is obstructed in doing so by others.

 

  That her Majesty returned in good spirits, attended by her ladies in waiting, Mrs. C. B. Wilson and Mrs. W. Aldrich, from Hanauma, last Friday. This was fortunate as the rough weather and the tremenodous speed of the vessel, so we understood Commodore Rice to say, something less thatn twenty miles an hour baried the vessel so much, that he was obliged to batten down everybody below decks except himself. who navigated and steered the Eleu with his head just out of the smoke stack.

 

  That the Police Judge of Hamakua nearly broke his neck jumping out of a window, in order to save his moral neck, and also save himself from a little pillet from an infuriated somebody.

 

  That the country districts are calling for a visit from the Hon. R. W. Wilcox.

 

  The the Coomodore declares that what was said about the Eleu and her royal voyagers was not true.

 

  That the innate malignity of Mrs. P. C. A. Grundy in harrowing up the public to see our paper for themselves, has brought numbers of new subscribers. One dollar a month they pay Mrs. G. Sour grapes!

 

  That certain of the 'unco guid' are privately backing up a press statement to the effect that the whale ships have not been shipping alcohol, but every boat boy knows that the Waimanalo has been loaded deep on several trips to whaler, with nothing but full casks on deck!

 

  That on behalf of the U. S. Government "a chief's amang ye takin' notes,

  And faith, he'll print it"

The full story of the murdering alcohol will be told by him, and we propose to give the full facts ourselves as soon as we can get them.

  That the "great daileis" know all about the alcohol, but are like Cerberus muzzled, lest they should lose an ad.

 

  That ten of the youngest high hula kickers of the late royal boathouse crew have been remoed to Waimanalo.

 

  That the Hawaiian Branch Committee of the Y. M. C. A. have to close up the Queen Emma Hall in order to save the expense of $900 a year towards the boss Secretary's screw. This is evangelizing the Hawaiians.

 

  "Stead. of the Review of Reviews," neatly observes one of his enemies "has for long been the self-constituted custodian of the morals of Great Britain. He is a kind of embodied 'British Matron,' in pantaloons, and, when oecasion offers, about as prurient a journalist as ever lived."

Which reminds ns that we have another self-constituted custodian of morals, which, when occasion offers is hired out to a gang of self-seeking political Thugs who print "unwholesome trash" on the character of private persons and rely on an abuse of the jury law to get off. How else could the miserable sheet be earning irs living "except in the support of such a disgrsce." Look at the composition of its report of the annual meeting of the Y. M. C. A. for instance, in its issue of Friday last, and tell us, dear reader, if in the face of such linguistic butchety, you can be surprised that people abroad speak of us as a people just emerging from cannibalism. We sadly need a law for the compulsory instruction of the cheap newspaper adult, and a penalty for spreading out in print and circulation abroad--to our national humiliation--such samples as the aforesaid, of our national illiteracy. The pen-picture artist who clothes his imagery in 21 oz denim. outght to be relegated to the cross-cut saw and the wood pile.