The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-08-14

Merrill, United states Minister keSl-
dent, and Mrs. Merrill; II. B. Ms
Commissioner, Major j. II. Wode-
house; the French Commissioner,
n. Henri Fccr; Hon. j. II. Putnam,
United States Consul-Gcncral: the
Japanese Consul, Mr.. Nakamura;
Mr.. Justice McCully and lady, Mr..
Justice Preston, the Consular Corps,
etc., etc.
The Royal Hawaiian Band played
u programme of funereal music in
front of the church before the OPEN
ing, and also gave appropriate music
at the close of the service. After
the arrival of Their Maiesties the
programme of the occasion was en-
tered upon, L. S. Minister Merrill
presiding. Mr.. Myrom II. Jones,
organist, gave a funeral march from
Beethoven with his usual skill. Mr..
Merrill then delivered the opening
address as follows:
L. :. MINISTER MERRILL.
The great conqueror has demand
ed an unconditional surrender of
the General of the age. Deaths
tidal wave has washed the soul from
the shores of time out into the great
ocean of eternity, and while the
body is moldering back to the dust
from whence it came, we assemble
on n distant sca-girt isle to scatter a
few spoken tributes to his memory.
Under the shadows of the Egyptian
ramids-in the halls of sovereigns,
where he once sat the honored guest:
on 1ndia's torrid plains, through
Russia's iccbound realms, men
whisper, "Grant is dead" How
can mortal add luster to his fame?
How can | weave chaplets which
shall add new beauty to the life and
character of such a man? Impossi-
BILE! The people know, and with
one accord have heraldcd his fame.
The world has gone to his birth
place, traced him through youth,
watched him up through the clouds
at Lookout Mountain, stood appalled,
at his vigorous and persistent grasp
at Nicksburg, listened to his guns
in the Wilderness, and with respect
| full wonder watched him marching
down the brink of eternity, until he
could hear the waves beating on the
opposite shore, with that same firm,
steady. courageous tread which
marked his soldier life. A child of
America, his character and fame are
the property of the world! His
only inheritance was large brain,
a great heart, and a mothers bene-
diction. Born in Ohio, in 1922,
when that now prosperous and thirty
ing State was part of what was
once known as the "Wild West !"
from an humble beginning, strug-
| Cling up through adversely, against
poverty, crowding through busy,
rough and frowning world, he hero
! ically climbed the column of human
greatness until, scarcely having
passed the meridian of life,
Moving up from high to higher,
| Becomes, on fortunes crowning slope.
| The pillar of Il peoples hope.
| The center of Il worlds desire.
Whether youth stubbornly fight
ing adversely, on the tented field
amid the smoke of battle, or as
chief magistrate of the nation, that
same fortitudc, courage, stern re-
solve and fidelity of purpose, is
mirrored throughout his whole
career. He needs no monument.
With his own hand he has reared an
obelisll more imperishable than
stone, more brilliant than gold, the
foundation of which is laid deep
and broad in the affections of his
countrymen, and by his own acts
has piled stone upon stone until it
stands before the world the embodi-
ment of superior genius. General
Grant was not an old man when
called to bivouac with the dead but
life is not measured by its hours
and days, but by that which we have
done therein for our country and
kind. A useful life is short if it
last Il century. It's ''measured by
the souls advance" Man, by his
own deeds while living, erects, if
he will, his own monument, and by
his acts carves inscriptions which
will remain truthful mcmcntoes
when the escutcheons on the marble
slab shall be dimmed by time and
buried in the dust of ages. Moths
may corrupt, and thieves break
through and steal the gilded paint
ing; ages corrode and crumble the
marble and granite shaft, but the
crowning glory of the silent, mag
unanimous man at AppomattoX.
Never
Not only one great people raise his urn;
The worlds far extended region mourn.
As the soul of the soldier obeyed
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