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

written as with an iron pen ana LEAD
in the rock for ever on the tablets of
the German heart, in palace and in
parliament, on the banners of her ar
mics, and on the walls of her homes
those words which upon the 9th of
January, 1851, when Prince William
became 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 stead
fasiness of her religious sentiments,
and in the Strengthening of her defen-
sive arm, will be found the conditions
of her rank and power among the Eu-
ropean States"
We turn with tender feelings to the
thought that the aged monarch, hav-
ing passed by nearly a quarter of a
century beyond the allotted life of
man, has been gathered to his people.
Hush, the Dead March walls in the peoples
ears,
The dark crowd moves, aud 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.
Gone, but nothing can bereave him
OF the force he made his own
Being here, and we believe him
Something far advanced in State,
And that he wears trner 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 him."
But our hearts 90 out to him upon
whom there has fallen the mantle of
authority, the eXcellency of dignity
and the eXcellency of power. The
sadness of a 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 stiffness as the anxious
physicians and attendants 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 throne, lest HIchabod"
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 appre-
tensions for the future are crowded
with forebodings, that the Good Physi-
clan will pour into their wounds the
oil and wine of His spiritual healing
and that the Holy Comforter will
uphold them-while you will no less
thank God that this sorrowing family
is bound together by Christian piety
and are no strangers to the consola-
lions of the God of Love.
For the good example of the aged
Emperor, we thank God. He was
warrior, yet he was q 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 crown of righteous
ness. May the Eternal Light dawn
Oh him, with the elect of God.
sat rest with them that in the mountain
grots of Eden lie
And hear the fourfold river as it murmurs
by
Here iii 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 whatwe can be and ought to be
every man in his own order, in
obedience to the laws of justice, hon
esty, truth and purity which are for
man or nation For God and for the
faith of our fathers, for home and
fatherland, wherever we may be, be
1t ours to "qult us like men, be
strong" until through early death or
after longer life, we pass to that world
where for all that are worthy there is
an accession to reign with Kings and
to live forever with our God.