Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-05-31
DECORATION DAr.
DECORATION DAr.
Tie Memorial Serrtce at Port street Church
so~ S"rdHy--TIe March and Ceremonies
sthe Cemetery m Friday afternoon
The Ererefses ~ Musical Hall
Et.sd

ESSVSf5Fs vs. lnUFtS" "V'
on Friday erenfnD
Again the tcnderest holiday of the
greatest Of the worlds republics has
come and gone, and Honolulu is better
for the coming. To quote felicitous
line from Mrs Dilingham's thoughtful
poem Of the day,
" All, here is a shrine that Humanity share"
1t is no presumption to claim for
George w. DE Long Post of the GAR.
a perennial pension of gratitude, that
its action has reused from the dream
less sleep Of neglect mot surely selfish.
ness nor yet unkindness) that most
touching OF emotional sentiments
for the habitations of our dead Last
year the work was we'll begun This
year II has been energetically carried
on. Let US never allow 1t to fall into
disusc.
Last Saturday afternoon, and for
many hours on Sunday, loving hearts
and busy brains and willing hands were
busy identifying Fort Street Church for
the service Of Sunday night From the
grounds and gardens of the vicinage
came branches Of palm and fronds and
feathers Of fern and odorous rcdun-
dance Of brilliant bloom, and from the
lovely semi solitude of Ulupalakua came
a basket of blue flowers on special
mission-thc largess of Mrs. Hastings
and the Misses Makee.
Surely Fort-Street Church was never
more appropriately decked over the
organ front were draped two flags, their
stars joining at the apex and beneath
the point Of contact large wreath
red, white and blue the red and white
were oleanders; the blue, mingled
mass Of heliotrope, lark spur and aga
panthus. The pulpit was draped with
a flag and nanked with two tall flower
masses, in which ferns and callas and
virgin lilies were most conspicuous. In
front of the pulpit were two stands OF
arms, across them rested sword, from
one Of them depended shining drum;
from the pulpit, above and yet between
them, hung portrait OF Lincoln.
Along the gallery front stretched large
flag, and over the central doorway hung
portrait of Garfield, the murdered
presidents facing each other along the
central aisle. On each side of the
room, palm branches were placed at
harmonious distances, and the side
chandeliers we're festooned with male
At halfpast seven the following mem.
bers Of George w. De Long Post filed
into the church, Samuel Mott, Jere.
miah Simonson, Jr., r. w. Lame,
Charles Eldridge, Louis Adler, ]. ID,
Arnold, ], Cruzan, Thomas Campbell,
N. B. Emerson, Martin Hagan, X. ].
Green, ]. Lovejoy, w. X Lawrence,
Samuel Mckeague, William Mccain
dless, w. II. Place, John Ross, +. II.
Ryan, G. w. Smith, w C. Wilder,
James White w, i. Williams Thomas
Cary, +. l.. Clarke, Charles Fox and F.
A. Rounels (; accompanied by the fol
lowing visiting comrades Max Pracht
G.. II. Thomas Post, No, ?, San Fran
cisco l.. II. Riley, Stanton Post, No
SIS, Los Angeles and also by the fol
lowing ex Union soldiers or sailors o.
the Rebellion Daniel Lyons, NJ. L
Newton, Charles Dexter, J. r. Morrill,
W. +. Smith and three Others unknown
by name to the commander of the post
Previously, Acknowledgement Neu
mann, American Minister Residen
Daggett and Mrs, Daggett and Consu
and Mrs. Mckinley had taken seats
Shortly after the members of the pos
were seated King Kalakaua entered
accompanied by Governor Domini
and the assistant chamberlain.
Pastor Cruzan's memorial sermon
was as follows
THE SERMON.
Ex. Ia:I4-"And this day shall be unto 20
for a memorial"
In the presence of any great deliver
ance, or achievement, or event, or here
ism, man instinctively seeks to embed
his grateful emotions in some lastin
memorial. God recognizes this instinct
i've desire in man. In the text Go
institutes the Passover as perpetui
memorial day So, constantly the gres
events Of His providential dealings ar
symbolized and memorialized The Je'
had his memorial days, and SO has tn
Christian. Christmas, Easter, the Chris
ian Sabbath are God-appointed meme
rial days. America has two memoir;
days the 4th of July, when we took o,
place among the nations of the earth, an
Decoration Day. which is monumer
to mark the passage of our natio
through that red sea of blood, and /
which she was made in fact as we'll {
name, free people. But these day
and the brave men whose heroism
thus commemorated, do not belor
to America alone. No great, gram
heroic man belongs to the nation whic
gives HIM birth. And the work SUI
men do is not for one nation, but f
humanity. Washington, Lincoln, al
Garfield were Americans, but they b
long to the race, and the world has
right to claim them, and the race shar
in the liberty which their great hear
and heroic struggles won. Cromw,
and Milton, and Hampden and Jol
Bright first saw the light in old Englan
and for her they believed and spok
and fought-but the world has claim,
them rightly as humanity's champion
And so in every land, and in every az
every great leader who stands forth
the champion OF the people, and OF 4
rights OF man, belongs to the race.
In 1867, in America, great cris
not only in the history of that grs
nation, but in the history Of the wor
called into being in the loyal north
immense army. They were not mt
soldiers soldiers by profession
trade. They did not 90 forth at I
call Of ambition, or mere adventure,
glory. or power They went forth
defense Of an idea. They believed q