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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 I 0 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 1igljlcaiisitr ss rnllcll n Trillion." . HONOLULU, "FEBRUARY, 1003. 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 v.,&jfo?li&Sa.u.fVj u. iw4,v. l.V . .. A me$ k. py j l'lli 1.111 inr Aniiiiiii. , Kllilu Copies 111". 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. i I