The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-05-25
MEMORIAL SERVICE.

Sunday evening Rev. j. \. Cruzan
preached before Geo. w. belong
Post, G.. A. r., and large congre-
CATION, in Fort street Church. The
comrades marched III a body from
their headquarters on King street,
and took the seats reserved for them
at the front of the church. His En-
cellency Governor Dominis aud Mr..
Schaefer, Italian Consul, sat in front
of the Post, while in their midst was
seated His Excelency Geo. w.
Merrill, United States Minister
Resident, Mr.. j. II. Putnam and
Mr.. +. p. Hastings, United States
Consul-Gcneral and Nice-Consul
respectively. The decorations were
very handsome. Over the pulpit,
on the front of the organ pipes, was
an American shield, the stripes be-
ing of red and white roses. y franz
ed portrait of the late Lieut.. De-
Long, after whom the Post is nam
ed, rested on a drum in front of the
desk, and stand Of rifles with fixed
bayonets on either side supported
an ornamental sflagstait bearing the
American colors neatly festooned,
the gathers being held with long
sprays of white stephanotis. The
choir loft and platform were adorned
with vines, flowers and ferns in rich
and fragrant variety. Prof. Iarnd-
ley led the choir with his usual skill,
accompanying some of the hymns
with the violin, supplementary TO
Mr.. Myron Jones performance on
the organ. The choristcrs did their
part with the consummatc power of
trained talent distinguishing them
among the local ''sweet singers of
Israeli" and the congregation was
not backward in Ginning i'll one such
of the hymns as We're familiar to
them, particularly the American
national anthem, "America."
The preacher took his text in the
fifth verse of the 2Slh Psalm: ''We
will triumph in the Lord of our sal
walton; in the name of our God we
will set up our banner" He said
that in all ages men have set up
some banner or flag, which was to
them the sign or symbol Of some
great principle, and have been ready
to defend it even with their lives.
So in that piece of bunting displayed
before them, their fathers had
stitched the eternal principles of
human freedom, and it was a sign
to their country of the great prin-
ciples for which they stood. In the
name of their God those men set up
their banner. TO Americans it was
more than bit of bunting. No one
must tamper with it, none taunt it
with impuni,y. This he illustrated
with famous sayings and episodes of
the civil war, referring TO Booth,
when he shot Lincoln, rs being
caught in that flag which he meant
to dishonor, and getting away a
poor cripple, amaimed thing. He
went on to say that the flag would
only remain power so long as it
would he upheld by men like those
who in the name of God had set it
up, thence discoursing on the neccs-
sity of righteousness to a nation that
would achieve and preserve great
ness. He quoted Rev. Theodore
Cuyler in the New York Mdepen-
dent on the grandeur of Gladstone 5
character as being that statesman 5
greatest source of power. The great
need of our time was men of con-
science, such as the worthless of the
past-LincOln, Farragut, and others
were. What man needed was to
be loyal TO truth, to God, and to
manhood and the highest cXemplar
of true manhood was the man Christ
Jesus. In conclusion he said: Com
rades of the Geo. W. belong Post,
it is meet that we should honor these
dead brothers. They were not per-
feet men, but in this they were noble
men-they went straight in the line
of duty, where the bullets rained
like hail (; where they stood face to
face with death in the path of duty
without their faces blanchng. Be
cause they were thus faithful it is
meet that we should honor them.
And we can honor them by living
faithful to principle as they died fol
principle. ! pray God that we shall
live faithful in the path of duty, and
when at last we shall be mustered
out in the presence of God and His
redeemed it may be said of us, as i,
was said of Paul, "IIcnceforth there
is laid up for me crown"