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

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| always possess the hearts of his people
that they may never be wanting in honor
to his person and dutiful submission to his
authority; let his reign be long and pros
porous, and crown him with immortality
in the life to come; through Jesus Christ
our Lord. Amen.
Then was sung Martin Luther's Judg-
ment hymn, "Great God, What do
See and Hear?"
The ADDRESS.
The Rev. George Wallace, B. D. spoke
as follows:
AS we gather here this morning for
this solemn service it is by no mere CO.
incidence that the words of David. King
OF Israel, spring to our thoughts. The
character of the hero of Hebrew history
exhibits a wonderful completely in it's
elements of passion and tenderness,
generosity and fierceness. Not only is he
poet and prophet, but soldier and states
man. He is the romantic friend, the
chivalrous leader and the loving father.
We look not to those 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 possibly only to a noble soul. We
look rather to that earnest struggle
which he made before the world to that
which is good and best, with true I'M
conquerable purpose to the end.
These says the Holy Scripture are 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 God 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
has 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 battles.
Emperor, generals, ministers, subord-
mates, all classes and conditions echo
the language of Israel in asserting that
the Lord of hosts fights for them, has a
concern for them and they are His peo-
pie. "Gott NIT uns,'' is their motto. No
foreigner can comprehend the spirit that
animates Germany of modern times I'M
til he has read it in the temper of the
Old Testament worthless, "who through
faith subdued kingdoms, and wrought
righteousness.
There are those who tell us that this
sentiment is allied to barbarous days,
yet here is a people in the nineteenth
century strangely like the Israelites OF
old, educated yet combative; cultivated
in the arts OF peace, yet trained in the
spirit of military obedience; race
which sends out it's reformers in religion,
it's students of deep philosophy, It's
its mighty men of letters, it's sweet
singers and gifted musicians-and yet
deifes with a passionate fervor the
heroes of it's battle feids-and trains
alike in it's households the son who is a
man Of peace and the son who is, ga
man of war from his youth"
When we mourn the death of the En-
peror William, who in ruling over men
was just, ruling in the fear of God, when
the heart of the civilized world is filled
with tender anxiety for him who has
deed il had no message to bring you as
a minister of Christ, if [ could not speak
to you to-day with fervor of loyalty to
God and to the powers that be which are
nothing if we be not set as on a light
house to shed 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 it's functions
to strengthen the throne of princes,
spread peace on earth, encourage loyalty,
and sanctify all chivalrous attachment
to order and government with the infu-
sion of those graces which He be-
slows who is the King of kings and
Lord of lords. If our religion be real
ity 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 Caesar's, and unto God the
things which be Gods" This kingdom
coming not with observation disturbs no
empire but that of Satan, dethrones no
prince but the prince of the power of the
air and utters no anathemas against
'enates and cabinets, save those wherein
greed, self-will and lust of power, breed
and rebellion, while it says to
rulers FBe wise now therefore o we