The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1892-11-29

Hattie Judd, who came in on her
crutches and never missed Saooath
| if able to attend worship. On this
| Sabbath, perhaps, DIR. Judd brought in
with him a tall young Chinaman. he
was one of the first importation of
coolies and had begged DR.. Judd to
| take him as his own cooIe because
| he had some education in medicine in
| his own land. DR.. Judd did so, and at
once began to teach him and bring
| him to church. He was the first
| Christian Chinese convert here and
| Joined our Church, Luke Cum.
Further down the aisle sat Deacon A.
| 5. Cooke and family, Deacon +. ..
| Hall and family, Mrs. Chamberlain
! and hers, Mrs. Armstrong and hers,
and many others not of missionary
| descent Mr.. S. \. Castle took two
pews across the mauka side where his
large family could sit side by side, and
strangers were always welcome there.
| 4 AbOut the center of the mauka middle
| aisle was then as now the pew OF Hon.
| c. r. Bishop, and very regularly to
! the evening service came that beloved
| Chiefess of Hawaii - Mrs. Bernice
Pauahi Bishop. She always attended
in the morning the Kawaiahao
! Church, of which she was member.
Time would fail me to speak of the
many dear ones whose names even
are unfamiliar to the present genera
ton. Deacon William Humphreys
and his wife, Elizabeth Humphreys,
the parents of Mrs. Robertson of the
English Church, Honolulu, aud grand
parents of Mr.. ]. W.. Robertson, the
present Chamberlain of Her Majesty
LiIiuokalani. Deacon Humphreys
| af xrnrSntilitu of
thought, and as great humility as
few of the rich thoughts we still trea-
sure in memory's storehouse of what
he said at our prayer meetings. Mrs.
Humphreys died about two years
since at the advanced age of ninety
years, loving Fort Street Church and
people to the end. Then there was
Deacon J. Bartlett, Deacon E. O..
Hall, Deacon Pierce, Mr.. Maurice
Beckwith-men of renown in our
church. AS [ look down on this space
i'll front of the pulpit, where those
two short Jews leave q convenient
space, 1 remember how Mother Di-
mond insisted on having them cut
| away to leave room for our weddings
in church; and then my mind flies to
the wonderful seasons of refreshing
from the presence of the Lord, en-
joyed under the ministry of several of
our pastors; and how around this pull
pit have clustered our young people
like doves to their windows, to enter
into visible communion with Christ.
Rev. E. Corwin, Rev. w. Frear, Rev.
J. A. Cruzan, DIR. S. G. Damon and
cries to cherish. We can never forget
those precious days, nor the meetings
of united love in the vestry below,
where Father Damon, Father Thrum
and others of the Bethel were with
us, and the hearts of both congrega
tiOns were welded together. Over the
early death of such yOuth-as Allie
M. Chamberlain, VIM. T. Damon
} Clarence w. Cooke, Robert Thurstor
and others, we wept indeed, but re-
, joiced as well, for they were con.
querors through the blood of the
Lamb. Such names of fragrant mem
ory as Caroline Alice Hall, Sophia
, (HalD White, Laura F. Judd Dick
son, Henry A. p. Carter, Julia Beck.
with) Walsh, Clarissa (Shipman
| Thurston, Laurence McCully anC
J. E. Bidwell, which are selected
only as samples of this church o.
Christ in Honolulu and are held mos
uedT, anu we are sure we tCuO tlit
feelings of all, whose dear ones we
J have not named, by closing with
} these lines:
How such holy memories cluster
Like the stars when storms are past,
. Pointing up to that far Heaven
? We all hope to gain at last.
,. Remarks by W. W. Hall.
1 have been asked to give a few
: "reminiscences in connection with the
: Fort Street Church and this old his
3 torical building in which we are nov
e meeting probably for the last time
: AS the other speakers will no doub
= speak more fully of the history of tn,
t church, and of the sainted men ant
T women who have constituted its mem
4 bership since the time of it's formation
e in 1852, thought it might be well tC
: mention some early "reminiscences il
!, connection with our choir, which ha:
= always done its share in the public
D worship during the past forty years
= The choir that used to stand ant
sing round the little melodeon in th,
: Kaumakapili Church and the Govern
e ment Court House, now occupied by
/. attempt the difficult anthems anC
|
t of our present pipe organ. Our choi
d was composed of old and young, th,
e fathers singing with the children.
= well remember standing up with my
= father and sister and singing soprano
: when quite small boy. Our plesen
? pastor, DR.. Beckwith, led the choil
# for several years, and we became yer,
t familiar with those old anthem
!, in Mason's "Carmena Sacran and tn
y "Jubilee." The old tunes were th
i ones we used to sing the most, ant
b none of the newer tunes that we sin,
e to-day can surpass, for purposes o
. genuine worship, old "Hamburg,'
e "York," Crock of Ages" "St
o Thomas" "Old Hundred" and many
e others that we used to sing. Whel
3 we used to meet for worship in tn
n Court House it was before the uppe
J, floor was put in the Court room; i
|. was then a lofty room, open from th
d lower floor to the upper ceiling, ye
J. the congregation led by the choir
e filled the whole room with sacret
d song. When we moved into the new
If Fort Street Church in 1856 we had
d large cabinet organ with number o
e stops, and / well remember hoy
|. grand we thought it was, and man,
/, of us who had never seen a pipe orgai
= in our simplicity thought that moth
/. ing could be finer than our new reeC
e organ. Our choir was led in thos
e days by the young men who used t,