The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-03-27

United states, and all Christian kings,
princes and governors, and lastly petit
tioning that the prayers of that con-
gregation be granted.
The hymn by Luther, ''Great God,
what do l see and hear?'' preceded the
sermon, and the hymn, 1.-THE Son of
God goes forth to war, i" followedit after
which the congregation was dismissed
by the Bishop with the benediction.
As the concourse dispersed the organist
played the German National Anthem.
The band followed with appropriate
music, as the King and Royal Family
left the church.
Below appears a synopsis of the
memorial discourse of the Rev. Geo.
Wallace:
AS we gather here this morning for
this solemn service it is by no mere
coincidence that the words of David,
King of Israel, spring to our
thoughts. The character of the hero
of Hebrew history exhibits a wonder
ful compleXity in its elements of pas
sion and tenderness, generosity and
fierceness. Not only is he poet and
prophet, but soldier and statesman.
He is the romantic friend, the chival-
rous leader and the loving father.
We look not to the sad records of
David's history which tell us of time
in his career when there was no want
of sin. We dwell not on the depth
and thOroughness of that repentance
which is possible only to noble soul.
We look rather to that earnest struggle
which he made before the world to
that which is good and best, with true
unconquerable purpose to the end.
These, says the Holy Scripture, be
the last words of David:
"David, the son of Jesse said, and the
man who was raised up on high, the
anointed of the God of Jacob, and the
sweet psalmist of Israel said, The
spirit of the Lord spake by me, and
his word was in my tongue The
Lord of Israel said, the Rock of Israel
spake to me, He that ruleth over men
must be Just, ruling in the fear of God"
As we read the history of the great
nation whose most Christian Emperor
mas been gathered to his fathers the
mind recurs to that old Hebrew King
dom. Here as there we encounter
the same firm faith in the God of bat
ties. Emperor, generals, ministers,
subordinates, ali classes and conditions
echo the language of Israel in assert
ing that the Lord of hosts fights for
them, has a concern for them and they
are His people. "Gott nit unsn is
their motto. No foreigner can COM
prehend the spirit that animates Ger
many of modern times, until he has
read it in the temper of the Old Tesla
ment authorities, "who through faith
subdued Kingdoms, wrought right
eOusness."
There are those who tell us that this
sentiment is allied to barbarous days,
yet here is people in the nineteenth
century strangely like the Israelites of
old, educated yet combative; Guilt
waited in the arts of peace, yet trained
in the spirit of military obedience; a
race which sends out its Feformers in
religion, its students of deep phiIoso-
ply, its mighty men of letters, its
sweet singers and gifted musicians
and yet deifies with passionate fervOr
the heroes of its battle fields-and
trains alike in its households the son
who is a man of peace and the son who
is "a man of war from his youth"
When we mourn the death of the
Emperor William, who in ruling over
men was just, ruling in the fear of
God, when the heart of the civilized
world is filled with a tender anxiety
for him who has become his successor,
it were strange indeed if / had no mes
sage to bring you rs a minister of
Christ, if l could not speak to you to-
day with a fervor of loyalty to God
and to the powers that be which are
ordained of God. Our commission is
nothing if we be not set as on a light
house to set out over the rising and
roaring waves of the worlds tumult
the light of eternal truth. Our holy
faith is nothing if it be not one of its
functions to strengthen the throne of
princes, spread peace on earth, encour-
age loyalty and sanctify all chivalrous
attachment to order and good govern
ment with the infusion of those graces
which He bestows who is the King of
Kings and Lord of Lords If our reli-
gion be a reality it is equally at home
in the courts of kings and the cottages
of the poor. 1t is the standing order
of Him whom we serve to ''render
unto Caesar the things which be
Caesars and unto God the things
which be Gods" This Kingdom COM
ing not with observation disturbs no
empire Dul Illal Ol Cdlduj uellIOLeS uO
prince but the Prince of the power of
the air and utters no anathemas
against senates and cabinets save those
wherein greed, self-will and lust of
power breed anarchy and rebellion,
while it says to rulers, "Be wise now
therefore o we Kings. Be learned we
that are judges of the earth'-and to
all alike: ''Serve the Lord with fear
and rejoice unto Him with reverence"
God moves in history. promotion
cometh neither from the east, nor
from the west, nor yet from the south.
God is the judge. He putteth down
one and setteth up another" In His
ordering of all things in progress
towards that
"-One far-off Divine event,
To which the whole creation moves,
the nation is the making place of men.
Not by the strength of venerable insti-
tutiors, not by the traditions of its
history, not by the splendor of its
achievements, not by the abstract ex-
cellencies of its constitution, but by its
fitness IN m al-a an on fO adrco tn hmm N