The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-03-23

You have cause TO tnank GOo, lily
brothers, as you name in your MIND
while speak, three mighty men OF mod
ern Germany, the emperor, the states
man. the soldier, and while there rise to
YOUR thought other great names in her
religious and intellectual life. Yea verify,
YOU have abundant cause to thank God
that there is building up in your Father
| land a strong, free and characteristic
manhood which shall help the world to
it's completeness. These have notcome,
nor shall other such come in the future,
without struggle and anguish, but future
ages will remember not the anguish for
iev that a man is born into the world"
AS true men you will pray that what
ever may be in store for your country,
"peace and happiness, truth and justice,
religion and piety, may be established
| for all generations" and that the just
NAV continue to rule in the fear of God
and may there be written as with an
iron pen and lead in the rock for ever on
tablets of the German heart, in palace
and in parliament, on the banners of her
armies, and on the walls of her homes
those words which upon the 9th of jan
uary, 1861, wheh Prince William be-
came King of Prussia, he published in
his proclamation
at is not our cOuntry's destiny to
grow great by acquisitions, but in the
exertion of her moral and intellectual
power, in the earnestness and steadfast-
ness of her religious sentiments; and in
the strengthening of her defensive arm,
will be found the conditions of her rank
and power among the European States"
We turn with tender feelings to the
thought that the aged monarch, having
passed by nearly quarter of a century
beyond the allotted life of man, has been
gathered to his people.
Hush! the Dead March walls in the peo-
pies ears!
The dark crowd moves, and there are sobs
and tears;
The black earth yawns, the mortal disap-
pears.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust!
He is gone who seemed so great.
NOhe, OuC LOGHIIlS CAN DeTcdFc ulIn
Of the force he made his own
Being here, and we believe him
Something far advanced in state,
And that he wears a truer crown
Than any wreath that man can weave him.
But speak no more of his renown;'
Lay your earthly fancies down..
With the noble dead we leave him;
"God accept him, Christ receive hial.''
But our hearts 60 out to him upon
whom there has fallen the mantle of
authority, the excellency of dignity and
the excellency OF power. The sadness of
peoples grief hangs over the heir of
the Empire, who is himself walking in
the valley of the shadow of death. The
greatest are born to die. The ruler has
no greater vitality than the humblest of
his subjects. There is hush and still
ness as the anxious physicians and at
PENDANTS come and go-lest too soon
again there be the dreary hustle of
preparation for the burial of the heir who
has come to the throue, lest "Ichabod"
be written on the gate and the pillar of
the house be fallen. And if we may
dare to revert to a deeper grief we would
ask your prayers, for those members of
the Imperial family whose sorrow is
doubled, whose apprehensions for the
future are crowded with forebodings,
that the Good Physician will pour into
their wounds the oil and wine of His
spiritual healing, and that the Holy
l.
will no less thank God that this sorrow
ing family are bound together byChristian |
piety and are no strangers to the conso-
lations of the God of Love-
For the good example of the aged |
Emperor we thank God. He was a
warrior, yet he was man of peace; and |
he has gone beyond these voices where
there is peace eternal. He wears no
crown of earth, for there is laid up for
him a crown of righteousness. May the
eternal light dawn on him with the elect
of God.
cat rest with them that in the mountain
grots of Eden lie,
And hear the fourfold river as it murmurs
by"
Here in the house of God hold up to
your imitation no example save that of
Him who alone could dare to bid men
follow His steps. For every one of us
there is a plan of life to be wrought out
before we can enter the eternal home to
which death is the only portal. May
God help us to realize what we can be
and ought to be, every man in his own
order, in obedience to the laws of Justice,
honesty, truth and purity, which are for
man or nation! For God and for the
faith of our fathers for home and father