The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-04-11

Our prayers, our thoughts of love
and cheer are in the wave of SYM
pathy that flows around the world.
1t sends its gentle food of tender
ness into desolate home on the
banks of the noble Hudson; it
spreads softly but swiftly TO another
upon the New England shore; its
soothing current tarries here and
there as it crosses the continent; it
rolls over two mighty oceans and
glides into the homes, the cities and
villages of the fatherland, over
northern Europe, Great Britain and
Ireland's emerald fields. 1t bids
many mourners, wives and mothers,
children, brothers, sisters, and
friends, to sorrow not as without
hope for them that shall come home
from the sea no more, until the
morning of the Everlasting Day,
when the great ocean shall give up
its dead, and there shall be no
longer the separating sea.
Our thoughts linger lovingly upon
the noble and courteous Christian
gentlemen who were but recently
going in and out among us, ana
were our frequent fellow-worship-
pers in this house of God. we
doubt not that they found the an
guish of death soothed by high
thoughts of God and immortality,
and died well as by the grace of
God they had we'll learned to live.
1t was the devout habit of two of
them to l1neel here frequently at
the sacrament of the Holy Supper
of our Lord, and to them we may
feel assured it has been given to
drink of the river of life and to eat
of the hidden mama in the Paradise
of God.
And the sea which took them
from us is Gods sea, and He made
it. God manifest in one flesh He
walked upon its waters and calmed
them at His will. 1t is ever an en-
blem of the Infinite One, in its
power in storm, its smile in peace,
its unceasing motion as though a
soul were in it, in its voice that
rises and falls in everlasting psalm.
With equal softness its wave washes
an island or q continent, flows in the
gulf stream or nestles in the cleft
of rock, or murmurS its sweet
music around the tisherman's boat
or theroyal barge of a Cesar, so flows
the Divine love around the whole
world of souls, forgetting neither
the glad hour when we rejoice nor
the sad hour when we die.
conclusion OF TIE SERVICE.
At the close of the sermon the
hymn "Ten thousand times ten
thousand was sung with fine effect
by the choir. This hymn was 9
special favorite with Paymastel
Arms, and one that was frequently
sung in the Cathedral at his request
The Bishop pronounced the bene-
diction, after which the large con-
! gregation left the Cathedral while
Handel's Dead March in Saul was
played on the organ.
| NOTES.
} The floral decorations were tho
| work of Mrs. j. w. Robertson, Mrs
, Pierre Jones, Mrs. G. G. Boardman
S Mrs. Z. p. Low, Mrs. Robt. Lew
r ers, Mrs. j. H. Boyd, Miss Hessit
l Dickson and James w. Mcclure.
e The detachments of marines ant
!, sailors from the L. S. S. Alert anC
y II. b. M. S. Cormorant marched to
It gether from the boat landing to th'
s Cathedral and presented a very flint
appearance. On reaching the from
of the building they parted, th
J. AleTts entering the Cathedral by th
o south door, the Cormorants by tn
n north door.
h The decorations were photograph
q ed at the close of the service b,
l. Messrs j. f. Boyd and j. Bowers
:. photographers, who recently arrive
= frem San Francisco.
o A platoon of police were in al
) tendance at the service.