The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-08-04
REV. j. d. PARIS.
Death of the Venerable Patriarch at
His Home in Kona.

Rev. John ID. Paris died at his resi-
dence in Kaawaloa, Kona, Hawaii,
about 9:3O pm. Thursday, July 18th.
The funeral services, the next day, .
were conducted by two pastors of .
the neighboring Hawaiian churches.
Foreigners as we'll as natives came
from far and near throughout the |
district to pay the last tribute of
affection and esteem. His body was .
borne to the grave by four of the |
Hawaiian deacons The Hawaiian
people have lost true friend, pru-
dent counsellor, loving helper,
Born in Staunton, Augusta county,
Virginia, he made public profession
of religion in the Hebrew Church
when he was twenty years old. With
the purpose of devoting his life to
foreign missionary work, he began a
course of classical and professional
studies, He spent two years in South
Hanover College, Indiana, and three
years in the Theological Seminary at
Bangor, Maine. Graduating in 1889,
he received an appointment from the
AB.C.F,M. to the Indians in Oregon.
He was married by Rev DR.. Cheever
in the Church of the Puritans, Octo-
Der %, 1910, to Miss Mary Grant, of
New York City.
Nov. IA, 1910, they embarked at
Boston on the ship Gloucester, with
Rev. Messrs. Dole and Bond, and Mr..
w. H. Rice, father of the present
Governor of Kauai. On arrival at
Honolulu, the pressing needs of the
work at the Islands made necessary
change in his field of service He
was appointed by the Sandwich Isl
ands, to kau, and was stationed at
Waiohinu. Here, amid difficulties
few now can realize or appreciate, he
labored with persistent fidelity and
success until his wife's illness and
death broke up for the time his
labors in the mission field.
Mrs. Paris was lady of more than
ordinary loneliness, intelligence and
conservation. Rev. Titus Coan, of
Hilo, at whose house she died Feb.
Is, lS47, speaks of her death, a vic
tim of consumption, as marked by
triumphant and rejoicing faith. To
her who had borne so bravely and
cheerfully the hardships of pioneer
missionary life, there was no dark
valley" no chilling food" in the
hour of death
In 1850 Mr.. Paris took his two
motherleSs girls to the States, where
they still have their home. Marry
ing there Sept. s, 1851, Miss Mary
Carpenter of New York City, they
embarked at Boston, Nov. Is, 1851.
On arrival at the Islands they We're
assigned to Kona, and made their
home at KaawalOa, near kealakekua
Bay, where a son and daughter still
live with their widowed mother.
In 1870 he came to Honolulu to take
charge of the theological school,
which in 1877 was recognized un-
der the name of North Pacific Mis-
sionary Institute. In 1874 he re-
turned to Kona, and there continued
to perform such missionary labor as
increasing years and infrmities made
possible. A sudden cold, ending in
pneumonia, was the immediate oc-
casion of his death.
Courteous and dignifed in man
ner, "a gentleman of the old school,
Mr.. Paris impressed all who came in
contact with him, as a man devoted
to the service of his Divine Redeem
err, and personally interested in every
undertaking that would contribute
to the salvation of his fellow-men
In his later years, precluded by
bodily weakness from active out
door labors, he not only kept him
self well informed of the progress o
Christ's Kingdom in the world al
large, but did all he could by advice
and exhortation to help neighbor.
and associates to higher STANDARD
and fuller measure of usefulness
To him has come suddenly, but no
unexpectedly, this summons of The
Master, to the higher life and fulle
joys of the redeemed in HEAVIER
above.