The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1892-11-29

the sway of Gods truth over sanity
souls whose backgrounds are pulpits,
and prayer meetings, and closets, and
family affairs; and whose issues are to be
the reign of righteousness in the earth,
and the crowning OF all the warning ones
with heavens glory, and honor, and inn
mortality. Oh, that is the history of the
world will want to read, by and by; how
SHINING hearts were transformed and
made "partakers of the inheritance of
the saints IN light ;" how truth was made
triumphant, and given its high place OF
honor in transigured souls; how human
ity was unloosed from its bondage OF sin
and linked by the golden chain OF love
to the heart and the home of God how
the world was made pure, and beautiful,
and blessed by coming, soul by soul, into
the likeness OF Christ-that is the history
We shall want to read up there at the
feet of Jesus. Nay, that is the history
that when the better day dawns upon US
here, will take the place of your stories OF
war, and your stories of love, and your
stories of the struggle for bread the his
tory OF the trial and triumph of the hu-
man soul. the one only thing in the
world made in the image of God.
And this is the history you have been
making here; history that If we could
read it as we shall read it, by and by,
would make the story of this house g
story of infinite interest and of surpass-
ing beauty.
But histories are not written in that
way yet And so we can only tell the
simple story of the things that are seen
Telling il SO, the history of this mouse is
brief and uneventfu!.
"The Second Foreign Church in Homo.
lulu," organized June 2, 1852. under the
pastorate of the Rev. T. E. Taylor o
blessed memory, having no house of it:
own, but the little Session Room over the
way, where we used to gather for the
mid-week meeting, and where we tool
sweet counsel together. had worshlppec
for four glad years, first, by the Christian
courtesy of our Hawaiian brethren, II
the old grass Kaumakapili Church, anC
afterward, by the generous permission oi
the Government, in the new and commo
dious Court House on Queen street
Four fruitful years of grace and of growth
they were, that gave us the ability ant
impressed us with the urgent need o
having our own hallowed Church home
Meanwhile, on September 26, 1858, th'
Board of Trustees, consisting OF y. III
Gulick, VIM. H. Johnson, Jacob Hardy
E. o. Hall, and your present pastor, hat
| purchased of S. n. Castle, who hat
| bought the same of Chief Justice VIM. L
Lee, for the sum of $2100, the lot oi
which this house now stands. So we hat
a place for our sanctuary, this fair bit G
the borders of Fort street, from which, il
those early days we could look mountain
ward with unhindered vision. And yol
may well believe the sight of those gram
old mountains used sometimes to inspir
us to say, 81 will lift up mine eyes unit
| the hills from whence cometh my help.
And because by Fort street was to be tn
| place of our rest, on the 28th of January
| 1858, the charter name was change
from "The Second Foreign Church" t
'sThe Fort Street Church," by which ia
miliar name this house has been know
from the day of its foundation.
At once, upon the possession of
place, came up the question of the house
Then, as now, there were godly men an
women who felt like the Psalmist whe
he said, 81 will not give sleep to min
ewes or slumber to mine eyelids until
find out place for the Lord, an habits
ton for the mighty God of Jacob" S
We planned, and prayed, and counseled
talked it over in our homes, called meet
ings, appointed committees. obtai ne
plans, figured estimates, and about th
first OF May, 1854, at a meeting of tn
Church and Congregation, presided owe
by Judge Lorrin Andrews OF revered an
hallowed memory, S. N. Castle, Chai
man of Committee on plans and est
mates, reported; the report was accep
| Of
of A. s. Cooke, 0. ii. Gulick, A. 3. Bate
G. P. Judd, Henry Dimond and Ware
Goodale, was instructed to take prelim
nary steps toward the erection of brio
edifice at the estimated cost of 5000
So we seemed to see the fulillment
our desires and the answer to our prayer
But Gods ways were not as our way
Just when the skies seemed brightes
the clouds gathered. Only few da.
later, our beloved pastor who had bee
the inspiring spirit of all the work, W.
counseled by his physician to resign h
work and seek rest to save his lif
Sadly we sent him away on his eag'
quest for health, and for two long yea
we waited like the hindered exiles
Jerusalem, for Gods time to favor o1
Zion. 1t seemed long waiting. But
last the time came. In the spring
1856, we began our planning again. TT
Board of Trustees, consisting of q.
Judd, Warren Goodale, E. O.. Hall, C.l
, Bishop, r. A. s. Wood, ]. II. Wood,
! A. Weston, A. B. Bates, and Ichabt
: Bartlett, arranged TO meet every mornil
! at 10 o'clock and canvass the town t
one hour for subscriptions to buildil
fund. One hour day for an indefini
number of days, by nine of the busie
> men of the city. When you think of
!. you do not wonder that we built o
house and paid for it to the last dollar
the very top OF the turret.
5 The success of the canvass for su
scriptions seeming to warrant it, on t
: 22d of July, 1856, it was voted by t
Board of Trustees to accept tie tender
}, Mr.. G. II. Levers for the building OF
y church according to plans prepared
y Mr.. Heuck and perfected by Mr.. r.
s. Wood, on condition that by certa
l. changes and omissions, it could be co
9 tracted for at the price of $9500, whi
't was changed in the final adjustment
g $10,575. A Building Committee was a
e pointed consisting of G. P. Judd, j.
}. Wood and r. A. s. Wood. And so
q began to build, and for five busy mont
u this consecrated ground was the noisie
corner of the city. 1t was glad SOU
g though, to our ears, the ring OF the hal
q mers that drove these nails to their su
l. places. We marched back and forth
|, the sound of them believe we shou
Ii have danced to their merry No
II sic if dancing had been t
a orthodox thing. We went rou
e about it often, marking the bulwarks a
e telling the towers For we were to ha