The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-09-03

pie pieces. one or which was:
Before all lands in east or west,
love my native land the best;
With Gods best gifts tbs teeming;
No gold or jewels here are found,
But men of noble race abound,
And eyes of joy are beaming."
Mrs. Cooke had a happy vein of hui
NOR, and a habit of looking on the
bright side of things She often con-
trolled the large family of youth by
some merry way of causing a little trou-
BILE or alteration to turn quickly from
the serious to the ludicrous.
All the pupils but two had preceded
her to the Silent Land. Her affection
for every one was deep and sincere
through their whole lives, and many
times her heart was cheered by their
steadfast affection evinced to her. They
invariably called her Mother" and
none but herself could tell the unwrit-
ten history of how much they acknowl-
edged their love and Indebtedness to
her.
Let me close in her own words, with
an extract from her Paper of Rem
iniscence, read at the Jubilee Celebra-
ton of the Arrival Of the Reinforce
ment of 1897:
There is a wide difference between
the spirit of heathenism and the spirit
of the Gospel. The former teaches self
ishness It's tender mercies are cruel.
The delicate infant is strangled by it's
own parents. Helpless aged people are
buried alive. Woman is treated as an
inferior, enslaved and abused. The
spirit of the Gospel teaches love and
kindness to all, even to enemies. 1t
builds hospitals for the sick poor, CIV
ing them care, kindness and medical
aid. 1t builds homes for the aged, who
have no friends to care for them,
smoothing their pathway and comfort
ing them with the hope and blessings
ready for them in the Home above. 1t
builds and supports schools for the chill
dren, causing them to be taught and de-
yelOped into noble men and women, an
honor to their country, an influence for
good and a blessing to the world.
Let US recognize in the Queens Hos
pital, the Lunalilo Home for the aged
poor, and the noble provision for the
Kamehameha School, some of the be-
nifcent fruits of the Gospel of our Lord
and Saviour, left us as precious me-
mentos of some whose faces we shall
see no more on earth, and who were
members of the Chiefs Children's
School" NJ A. CHAMBERLAIN.
Following is Mrs. Rice's paper:
In the general meeting TO which we
came strangers in 1871, one of the first
faces to fix itself in my memory was
the beaming handsome face of Mrs.
Cooke, very pleasing in person, l was
much attracted to her and subsequent
only heightened my re-
gard.
l sometimes saw her in the school of
young chiefs, noticed the skill with
which she framed pretty bonnets, for
the girls, instructing them in many
ways. Bernice, afterwards Mrs. G. r.
Bishop, a lovely little girl, $50 beauti-
full with her wonderful curlS, that
keeps it a living picture), al
ways seemed to be near Mrs. Cooke,
and well did she repay her care. The
young chiefs were then a very inter-
esting group, pre-eminent among them
was Liholiho afterwards Kamehameha
fourth, then bright and pleasing. He
ever made friend of his Mother
Cooke, always having something to
tell her when l CHANGED to be at the
school.
Her patience and wisdom were
marvel to me. Her gift of song great
ly increasing her influence.
Their helpers, John Ii and his state
ly wife, under the influence Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Cooke, developed the highest
style of native christian character.
Many disappointment came to these
teachers in the lives of their pupils,
but the Queens Hospital, Lunalilo
Home and the Kamehameha Schools
are enduring monuments OF their
influence over some of their pupils,
and we can hope it was not in vain
over others. After the school was dis
banded, as Mrs. Cooke said because
there were no more young chiefs, she
entered with interest into other phases
of Christian work. None of us who
have had the privilege of joining in
her prayers at our meetings will ever
forget her loving flial words. In the
long years of our widowhood, and after
our families were connected by marri-
age, we became intimate friends. At
one time l made her house my home
an upper room, which 1 nam
ed Peace as the family life suggested
the udIlG AS d uOuSShS6p6I she never
seemed to worry, having a large share
of what is termed in New England
Faculty" good Judgment with rapid
ity of action, the work was quickly
done and the house mother found time
to teach her servants, and to help in
all efforts to uplift the people among
whom she lived, and to entertain many
guests.
She made very welcome my young
grandchildren. A letter received to-
day from one of them says: Mother
Cookies death is a sorrow to me, 1 shall
miss her, she has always been so kind
to me, especially in the days of my
But with her busy useful life, she
found time for reading, always hay
ing good book on her table, often
reading aloud to her family. l can never