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The Honolulu Ti
Vol. I. No. o.
Kindly read the VI. Chapter oi
St. Jolin's Gospel and then you will
see. (Ed.)
GOD.
Thy Creator is thy Saviour,
The God-man, Christ Jesus the
Crucified ;
He calls thee to eat and to drink.
Thou wouldst doubt, question His
ways, in thy pride,
Nor accept the gifts of the Crucified.
The great mystery for all time,
God, hanging on the Cross, the
Crucified ;
Thou must bow thy knee to the
Man Divine,
Eat of that Bread and drink of that
Wine,
Or have not thv part, in the Crucified.
God invites and never compels,
But, it's a question of Heaven an 1
Hell ;
"Come, eat of my Bread and drim:
of my Wine,"
The open door, to life Divine;
Anne M. Prescct
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TREMENDOUS FORCE.
When we were minded to go V)
town for a bit, we decided at once
to leave our place so tidy that it
would be a real comfort and rest
to look in on it again, in the course
of human events, when it became
necessary. Having that end in
view wc set to work with a happy
spirit and with a few choice spin's
by our side and at our elbow viz :
beck and call. Evervthing in school
and home was "picked-tip" an 1
"washed-up," and when wc locked
the doors on the whole plantation
and turned our back on that sugar
loaf, we fell very self-satisfied and
serene. But, it seems there was ,
horde of invaders in ambush, who
also felt satisfied and who remarked,
solto voce, "All things to him
who waits." "That woman, U'l
and with blue eyes, who tells
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children to broom us out and swei
us down and not spaiv the wate.
She is gone to town. Come In
friends, and we'll keep up a steady
litau. Wasps, run for your mud ;
spiders, weave, weave! ants spread
the feast. Roaches, take the drawers.
Mice run over the mantel,
knock down the pictures. Mongoose,
jump on to the roof, -''its
and dogs and hen, pick the bones.
Stray pigs squeeze in anywhere.
We'll have our holiday. Hurray!''
Wecame back in time and complacently
"opened up," but on
what?
A colony of roaches in our pa; -or
drawer, hills of mud all over, webs
spun across the antlers of our ink-jar,
mice on our precious
tea-pot, ants scampering ovr
the tables, dust and whirr whin,
everywhere!
These tremendous workers our
wee neighbors!
We have been enough conceited
and egotistical, at least in the past
few years, to assert and declare, to
ourself, that wc could and would
do a certain work within a given
time, say a day or a wee!;, if we
set out to do the same that we
could so perfectly concentrate our
thought and action, as not to allow
or permit anything to intervene to
mar our course in the matter or
prevent its fulfillment. But, in
watching the insect, and the winged
world, here in Wailupe, the mouse
and the mongoose and indeed the
wqrk of all nature, including the
book-worm, the cut-worm, the
and the weed, we give up anv
boast of being industrious half,
even though wc rise at
and work for many hours. We give
it up. The rpinners and the weavers,
the mud-carriers, and the destroyers,
the roaches and the rodents,
ah. they do not sleep or go
ever adreaming !
One may say there is not too
much strength or power, of any
sort, in an ant, or a spider, a bee
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or a wasp, a mouse or even in a
mongoose. Isn't there !
It is the number that tells, the
multitude and the perfect harmony,
the steady concentration
the grand unity. They work as
one ant, one bee, one wasp, or,:
roach, one spider. Ah, it is tin-unity,
the perfect unanimity, the
concerted action, the one single aim
in the work that tells and crowns
it with triumph and success ! They
do not stop to argue, to bicker, to
fault-find, but implicitly follow
their captain, their leader. All who
have studied the general habits of
the little not deaf or dumb community
friends about their dwellings
must have noted all that ve
can say on the subject.
Xo, we don't like cottages, or
"cots ;" we prefer a castle, and then
wc can write beautiful poetry about
moats and rustic bridges and drawbridges
and portcullises and champing
steeds and lordly knights an.l
ladies, and scenes of river and lake
and mountain that castle looks upon
!
You will say, O reader: "Tr
cannot be too much work to overlook
vour bit shanty." But did
you not live in a sort of palace
yourself, you would discover, soon,
granting that vou fancied matters
and things fastidioirlv comely
about you, that to abide in a band
box. with anv such ideas, one must
attend to "ridding" the same, abo it
six times dailv and once before
going to sleep that i all. Tt
means hard work, the living in a
small house: and as we said
we much prefer a castle wjierc w:
can walk about without knocking
something over or knocking against
that something.
Whenever we rhall adopt a little
maiden she will be baptized Fantasia;
no, not Fantasv, for that is an
English word, used by Shakespeare.
We prefer the Italian name and
our castle too will be in Italy, not
in Spain.
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