The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-05-25
THE GALLANT DEAD.
Memorial Services ia Fort Street
Church, in Anticipation of
Decoration Day

In accordance with what has grown to be
a regular custom in the United States in
connection with the observance of Decora-
ton Day, special service was held in Fort
street Church last Sunday evening in
memory of those who fell in the war of the
Rebellion in America.
Besides the large bouquets Of beautiful
flowers on the pulpit platform the organ
and pulpit were draped with American flags.
In front of the pulpit there was a couple of
stands Of arms, and between them portrait
Of Lieutenant Geo. W. De Long, in whose
honor Post No. 40 is named.
At an early hour the church was com
pletely filed. with the exception of the seats
reserved for the members of Geo. w. De
Long Post, No. IS, G.. A. r., who, accom-
panied by about forty members of the Hon
olulu Rifles, took their places at the ap
pointed hour.
Among those present were His Excellency
W. n. Gibson, Minister of Foreign Affairs;
His Excellency G. T. Gulick, Minister of the
Interior, and His Excellency Paul Neumann,
Attorney General.
His Excellency Rollin NJ. Daggett, United
States Minister Resident, and Mr.. D. A.
Mckinley, United States Consul, occupied
goats near the members of the G. A. r., and
in the audience were large number Of our
leading citizens. Following is the
ORDER OF EXERCISES.
Organ Voluntary 49,. Mr.. Myron II. Jones
Doxology (Franc) Choir and Congregation
Invocation. ......... .COmrade j. A. Cruzan
Response. .-........ 49,. Fort-street Choir
Old stament Lesson Psalm 147)....-
Observation-Disclosures. Rev. w. G. Merritt
TIE Deum in E. fat Baum bach) ........
Lii Solos by Mesdames Hanford and
Brown and Messrs. Turner and Yarndley
New Testament Lesson q Peter 2:1-l7)
..........C omrade J. A. Cruzan
hymn so God Beneath Thy Guiding
Hand (Hatton) neutrality-suspicious..
............C Choir and Congregation
PRAYER Rev. w. @. Merritt
Rss1onse, "ohiIdren Pray this Love to
Cherish" (Spohr)
-. Mesdames Hanford and Brown
Announcements .COmrade j. A. Cruzan
Hymn, "My Country tbs of Thee"
fSmith) Choir and Congregation
Memorial Sermon. E. Comrade J. A. Cruzan
Quartette, "Rest, Soldier, Rest"
s... Mesdanes landlord and
Brown and Messrs. Hall and YarndIey
Hymn, 'sLord, while for all Mankind"
Root ..... Choir and Congregation
Dismission. Rev. W. q. Merritt
Organ Recessional. Mr.. Myron ID. Jones
THE SERMON.
! Pastor Cruzan chose for his text Prov.
l4:94. .'Righteousness exalteth nation:
hut sin is a reproaoh to any people," The
reverend gentleman spoke as follows:
One of Landseer's most suggestive and
beautiful pictures is an old feld-piece, the
wheels over-grown with grass, and the rust
stains and weather-marks on metal, car
riage and timber, while a lamb that has
been cropping the grass, looks with wonder
into its yawning and harmless mouth.
Tt picture, thank Godl of America to-
day. But some of us recall a very different
picture. twenty-five years ago in America
the crimson curtain of war was drawn, and
the shuddering nation beheld a million men
in arms, and saw their camp-fires stretched
across the continent. The world looked on
as upon stage where tragedy is played.
But the stage was crowded with real heroes,
great and little. One great, grand man,
whom the world then scarcely knew, stepped
out with modest self-distrust upon a career
such as the world had never seen, laid his
hand with a solemn sense of responsibility
upOn the great task before him, and never
bore its honors. meekly, till, from under the
assassin's hand, his labor done and his fame
complete, God called and crowned him, and
the world, with tear-flled eye and unsteady
hand, wrote the name Of Lincoln alongside
that of Washington in the roll Of immortals.
And another, equally unknown, and his
egrea tness as unsupported, went forth from
the same State of Illinois at the call of coun-
try, modestly saying that he Thought he
was competent to command regiment" but
his country ut last discovered in him the man
she sought, and put him in command of all
her armies, and now the world watches the
sick-room of Grant, the great General OF the
age, and has already carved his name just
below those of Washington and Lincoln.
How eagerly humanity watched that
awful tragedy during those four long, bloody
wears! 1t was terribly real: the guns were
shotted, and the blood was genuine, and the
madness, and the fury, and the charge were
hot and earnest. And how genuine were the
agony of parting and the anguish Of bereave-
pnent. and how real and remorseless the
death that brooded over loved ones, some Of
us most wildly remember.
AS look back upon that awful epoch in
Americas history, in which you, comrades,
bore an honored part, it seems to me that
the men who plunged into it were, after all,
in one sense, puppets in play. While men
vers spinning threads to patch a sail, God
took their puny policies for the strands Of
His eternal purpose, and twisted them
together in a cable that should hold ship
at anchor while it offered rescue to a race.
Into mans purposes in this great contest
entered all manner of bition,
hatred, envy, jealousy, love of strife, and the
passion for notoriety as well as high and
holy love of country, solemn sense of duty,