The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-10-15
MEMORIAL ADDRESS
DELIVERED BY
The Right Reverend
The LORD BISHOP OF HONOLULU,
AT ST. ANDREWS CATHEDRAL.
N SUNDAY EVENING, OCT. 9th, 1881

2SAMUEL, m47-" Know We not that there is
prince and a great man fallen this day i'll Israeli
These words, uttered by David after the
assassination of Abner by Joab, express
the one prevailing sentiment throughout
bChristendom, as the mournful tidings spread
From land to land that the President of the
sUnited States had fallen a victim to the
sassassin's bullet, from which it was hoped
che might recover.
But God willed it otherwise. And if this
sdispensation of His Providence be inscruta-
bile to us, we know that our lives are In His
Inland without whom not a sparrow falleth
sto the ground; and we remember that it is
written, What 1 do thou knowest not now,
sbut thou shalt know hereafter.
! If we fail to decipher the handwriting ON
sthe wall, Of this we may be sure, that by
AN event such as this, which thrills the
world with horror, God has a message for
us, and it will be well, if, while we treasure
the memories that gather round the grave
sof the deceased President, we endeavor to
;read the lessons that our Heavenly Father
would have us learn by this dispensation of
His Providence.
/. before we apply ourselves to that task,
Flet me briefly explain why we had no special
in this church on Thursday last.
AS soon as / learned that there would be a.
general suspension of business throughout
the city on that day, out of respect to the,
memory of the fallen President, l felt it,
would be right that we as q church should
take part IN the days solemuities. For this
Anglican Church in Hawaii, whilst being al
daughter of the Church of England, is in asl
'close communion with the Protestant Epis-I
'copal Church of America as with the Mother
We are not the church of one
nationality. But without regard to ~nation-I
.tionality, we embrace among our membersl
'all who unite with us in holding the CATH
,olic faith. Whilst the memory Of the lateI
Justice is yet fresh among us, let none'
suppose that this Church is not American
Eas well as English, and has as close and,
deep a sympathy with the sorrows of our
brethren in the United States as with thosei
that may befall our brethren on British soil.
And hence it would nave been fittingi
that on the day set apart as a day of!
mourning for the late Pre- ident, we as a:
Church should have taken part III the days:
Is IDENTITIES. But Oh learning that the Rep-s
'resentatives of the Foreign Powers had ac-a
an invitation to attend the memorial;
service appointed TO be held elsewhere, Il
felt that it would be most in accord with:
the feelings of those most closely touched,
10y this tragic death, if it were made the;
subject of this evenings service. [.
"Kuow We not that there is a prince andl
"a great man fallen this day in Israel. I
words of David may be fifty applied!
Ito the deceased ruler of the American peo-!
pile. That he was "a great man" is uni-I
testified. lie was great in privatei
Jas well as in public life, one who from!
humble origin rose TO lofty position-aI
scholar, a soldier, a statesman one Who'll
He'd a virtuous life, part of it spent in al
.scene surrounded by great temptations, yeti
iabstaining from habits and vices only tool
common to men in the many positions bel
occupied one who stood firmly in p~racticei
by the sound morals he was taught, and
himself taught to others; n good son, a nobleI
example of tilial piety, a faithful and lovingl
husband, an affectionate father, conspicuous
for the felicity of his home in these relations;l
'one whose cheerful courage, brave COMPOST
lure, unfaltering contemplation of all POSSIBLE
results were the manifestation of the infiu-I
yence of a sound mind shrined in the temple
sof a sound body one whose conscience was
fclear as far as human eve could discern !;
zone. who IN an age when the foundations
sof morality are being Slapped, and religion
Iscorned, has left behind in the courage, the
scheerfulness. the faith, the preparedness
Sustained through weeks of intense suffer
ling, so many signal proofs of the influence
zaud power Of morality and religion-such
IAN one is truly to be entitled Great. And
such a prince and great man" was the late
president Garfield.
Let us for a moment reflect on the imme-
Idiate result to the people of the assassina-
ftion of Abner, over whom this eulogy was
pronounced by David. Abner the son of Ner,