Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-12-03

you Will most earnestly intCrccdc for us
before you go and if God permits it, most
lovingly and tenderly care for us after
You have gone.
Over there" we all soon shall be. Nav
the memories this day recalls. and the
thoughts it suggests bc hclp to each ono
of us in so living the rest of our earthly
lives. that the concluding portions of
them Mt least shall be n fitting prelude to
that everlasting life on which we hope to
enter beyond the river.
BELOVED ONES:
Your Brother and Sister Lyons and
their daughter desired us on this occasion
to present to you in their behalf these
golden presents, and with them express
their congratulations and most hearty best
wishes
Please to accept them.
| For some reason or other the ancicnts
esteemed certain days in the Calendar as
unlucky for matrimony. Lovers were told
to beware of the whole month of May.
and especially warned off from Feb. 1lth.
| June Ind, Nov. End, and Dec 1st. n you
| knew their views, it seems you did not
heed them.
The joy and happiness which has at
tended these 80 years of welded life, tho
success which accompanied your early
labor among the churches of Hilo and
! Puma, and the memorial school which Won
have established, and which still exists. a
monument of your industry and faithful
ness; all show that Nov. End. 1881 has
not proved to have been an unlucky day.
| 1t has not resulted in being an unlucky
day to you, to your children, to your
children's children, to the Hawaiians. or
to the community at large.
Having been yOur family phy gipion for
upwards of thirty years, and having thus
seen you i'll health and fecbleness, it is
perhaps fitting that / should with INV
companion i'll life specially congratulate
you ON this OCCASION which at times was
almost unlocked for, or ut least. but faint
ly expected.
Thank God that you have lived to see
1t, and that we are all here, natives and
foreigners, to enjoy it with you!
We wish you much happiness, not only
to-day, but all through your future earth
ly pilgrimage
1t is our most hearty wish that You may
always be supplied not only with the good
things of this life, but with the far richer
blessings pertaining to Immortality in
that world above, where they neither mar
ry nor are given in marriage.
God bless you abundantly =!
q. III. WETMoRE, MD.
DEAR BROTHER AND SISTER LYMAN:
To-day you celebrate as the 50th an
niversary of your marriage, and hence it
is called your golden wedding The
wooden, tin, glass and silver weddings
you allowed to pass unobserved; and it
was well you did so, for the tie that bound
you together was no wooden, or tin, or
glass, or silver tic, but golden tie, and
the bonds that united you were golden
bonds And the angels sang the wedding
song with golden harps. The path You
have trodden since your marriage has
been golden path lined ON either side
with trees bearing golden fruit.
You have had seasons Of trial, of sorrow,
of grief and of mourning, yet they have
not broken the golden tie or the golden
chain that has been unwinding from the
day in which You became one flesh till
now 1T has reached 80 years in length.
God be praised for allowing it to unwind
un heias3t for ala H9 lqng TING ,nv here to-
day to express their congratulations in
song, short speeches and thanksgiving to
God for past mercies, and in prayer to
Him to prolong your earthly life and ac-
company it with golden mercies and low
ing kindness.
These golden presents please accept
probation Of the good You have done
during this marriage jubilee and of the
joy and happiness this golden wedding
gives us.
And when the golden knot is Embossed,
and the golden bowl lroken and the dust
returns to dust and the spirit returns to
God who gave it, may golden-winged
angels come and bear you up through the
golden gates into the golden city, the new
Jcrusalem, and there with golden crown
may you walk arm i'll arm its golden streets
and with golden harps unite in singing in
golden strains the songs of redeeming
love! World without end! l.. LYONS,
Huo, November I'd, 1881.
My DEAR BROTHER AND SISTER LYMAN:
Having been associated with you in
Christian fellowship and labors ever since
my arrival in these Islands, more than 46
years ago, it is u joy and privilege to
congratulate you ON this suspicious jubilee
! of your marriage,
On the 9Th OF June, 1895, you gave to
my precious and now saintcd partner and
myself very cordial welcome, and soon
invited us to become associated with you
in the work of our blessed Lord, in Hilo.
And when we had received an appointment
by the Hawaiian Missionary Association,
as your associates we took passage with
you to this place where we We're welcomed
by you to your humble cottage of mud
laid walls and grass roof in which We ate
and sang aud prayed and communed and
planned together concerning the things
which pcrtaincd to the Kingdom of God
You Were rs parents to us, seating MS at
your frugal table dividing with MS your
littl, cottage and giving MS our first les
sons in the Hawaiian language and in onr
Missionary work for the natives. Since
then aud during these A6 years of toll and
prayer your fellowship and counsel have
been precious 10 us
We have passed together through a
marvellous series of vicissitudes, mostly
of Joy, but not unmixed with sorrow and
tears and painful bereavement, and we
have found your friendship true, your
hope anchored, your patience enduring,
your love abiding, your sympathies recip-
rocal and your faith more precious than
gold which perishcs.
We have passed most OF the mile stones
in our pilgrim path and left our way
marked behind.
: 4. A.