Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-12-01

Fort Street Church was comfortably filled
last Thursday, at ~ AN. King Kalakaua
was presen, during a portion Of the opening
exercises. lie was escorted into and out
Of the edifee by the American Minister and
was accompanied by Ministers Kapena and
Gibson and by Chamberlain Judd. Governor
Dominis and Postmaster General Whitney,
Consul Mckinley, and Hon Paul Neumann
occupied prominent seats, and in the audience
were several ladies and gentlemen from Cali
fornia, here on a visit. Hon. A. T. Judd, Mt
\. Frank Cooke, and Mr.. Koch acted as
ushers. In the pulpit were Revs. S. c.
Damon, s. f. Bishop, c. NJ Hyde, a. O.
Forbes, w. c. Merritt and Pastor
Cuaan. In the choir sat Mrs. A. f.
Judd, Mrs j. +. Brown, Mrs Cru,an,
Mrs Ilaudford, Miss Carrie Castle. Miss
Carrie Gilman, Professor Yarndley, Doctor
Emerson, Mr.. W. w. Hall and Mr.. J. r.
Warehouse, Jr. Mrs. Judd acted as organist
Rev. Mr.. Bishop opened the exercises with
short prayer, the choir following with yolun.
tary. Rev. Mr. Hyde then read President
Arthurs Thanksgiving Proclamation, Father
Damon following Mr.. Hyde by reading apsalm,
he in turn being followed by choir and con
gregation, who sang America. Mr.. Bishop
then read a selection from the New Tesla.
ment, and the choir sang voluntary. Rev.
Mr.. Forbes then prayed, after which the choir
sang O Paradise and both choir and con
gregation sang Lord, While for all Mankind
we Pray.
Rev. Mr.. Menitts sermon, which came
next, was sensible, reasonable, and in
passages an eloquent appeal for higher educa.
ton in Hawaii. He began by telling the
story of the Italian bellfounder who made the
Limerick bells-making them for an Italian
monastery and who, after the bells had been
stolen. from their first tower, during the sack
and pillage Of the monastery town, searched for
them from hamlet TO hamlet, and from town TO
town, till one night, while floating down the
Shannon in the traditional boat, he heard the
far, faint tinkle of the long lost chimes and
tainted at the sound. And then the speaker
told how some hours before the bells of New
England had rung out from village to village,
and the echoes, travelling from state to state,
and across the blue Pacific, had awakened in all
our hearts the echoes of that old-fashoned
New. England Thanksgiving Day Americans
so truly love and are so proud to honor
Bu, the speaker said he recognised that he
was long way from the traditional New Eng.
land Thanksgiving Day and he was not going
to preach a traditional Thanksgiving Day ser
mon. He wanted TO preach few plain, prac-
teal truths about the need of deeper, wider,
higher and better education. Evidently hav-
ing Punahou in mind, the preacher spoke Of
the folly Of making hgh-school grade and
calling it college. He voiced the accepted
truth that the community was rich enough to
endow that excellent beginning of college
literally, and so enable tito do better WORKMAN
even the excellent work of other sessions.
He spoke OF the increase Of crime-forgery
and highway robbery-as instanced by the
recent court calender of Waimea; and held
that the best offset to the present tendency to
crime would be found in education. Many
other points made by the speaker were well
worth repeating did not space forbid.
The choir then sang one of the many
arrangements Of the 2t Dfnm Landamns, Mrs.
Hanford, Mrs. Brown, Mr.. Yarndlcy and Mr.
Hall singing solo parts. After that the con-
grcgation sang the Doxology, and were dis
missed by the pastoral benediction.
ST. ANDREWS CATHEDRAL.
The sombre little building which the congre-
CATION of this church have been so many years
compelled TO occupy, was frightened by
decorations of flowers, fruit, vegetables, rice
and sugar cane, as symbolically suggestive Of
thankfulness due to the Giver of all good
gifts. The music was hearty and devotional
The service, mainly from the American Prayer
Book, was read by Rt Rev. Bishop Willis and
Rev. Alexander Macintosh. The sermon
was preached by Rev. George J. Wallace.
The whole Christian community of Honolulu
heartily unite with the cathedral concrega.
ton in the hope that another Thanksgiving
Day service may be held in place better
adapted for Episcopal services. Mr. Wallace's
sermon may be found in another column.
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