The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-05-24
6. 4, R, SERVICES
Eloquent Sermon by Rev. ]. M.
Monroe.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH CROWDED
Grand Army Men and
Sons of Veterans.
Music BY Prof. Cooke.
Church Beautifully De-
COrated.

The members of G. w. De Long Post,
G. A. r. and Camp G. G. Wiltze, S.of "
were treated to an eloquent sermon
last night by Rev. James NJ Monroe
in the Christian Church, Alakea street
Besides these war veterans, Admiral
Beardslee and members of his staff
were present with the congregation.
The church was beautifully draped
at the back with large American flags.
The pulpit was also covered with flags
and lying across was a large bunch Of
Gala lilies. Standing in front of the
pulpit stood two stands of arms,
stacked, an old saber hanging from
one and drum suspended from a gun
across the stands.
The music was appropriate to the
occasion, and especially arranged by
Professor Cooke. one number, HE
Sleeps Unknown being written by the
professor for this occasion, the theme
being founded on an event during the
late war, in which he took part. The
choir was large last night, and the
old soldiers joined with a will in sing
ing the old songs Mr. Monroe said in
part:
This day shall be unto you for a
Memorial And we shall keep it
throughout your generations. And it
shall come to pass when your children
shall say unto you: What mean ye
by this service?" That We shall tell
them the meaning EXODUS, 12:14-26
This institution of the Passover
Festival was the beginning of memo
rial days. 1t was speedily followed by
the institution of the Jewish Sabbath
and the Passover, the former being Il
weekly memorial day and the latter an
annual.
cat the setting up of the Cross, all
of these national Jewish memorial days
were abolished and the Lords Day
became the memorial of a risen Lord,
the one memorial day of universal hu
manity. Tomorrow we shall all join
heartily with our English friends in
celebrating their day, the birthday of
their good and great Queen. All
Christendom are the recipients of the
blessings flowing from her long and
beneficent reign.
Moses instituted the Passover as the
natal day of the Hebrew people It
was to them what the Fourth of July
is to the United States and the Hawai-
ian Republic.
LAS the Fourth of July is the me-
mortal of the birth of the American
Republic, so the Both of May is tho
memorial anniversary of the regenera-
ton of the Republic. Wherever there
is a G.. A r. post. Memorial Day will
be observed. And the preceding Lords
Day is being observed as We are now
observing this.
Here. mid-Ocean, we shout back TO
our Fatherland the battle hymn of the
Republic. Let this glad wave of jubI-
lee. mingled with the murmer Of the
Pacific, be echoed at the Golden Gate.
and be re-echoed from mountain peak
to mountain peak, until it shall CO.
alesce with the great tide OF song that
rolls up from 10000 cities and villages
in our native land:
MY country, It's of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died;
Land of the pilgrims pride;
From every mountain side
Let freedom ring,
never sounded so sweetly to us at home
as now, separated by time and space
from the land we love so well. By do
ing honor to our home Republic, on
this memorial occasion, we would re-
feet no discredit to the Hawaiian Re
public, the gem of the ocean, but quite
the reverse. AS we love the Mother
Republic. so we love her child In not
remote future. we trust, Hawaii will
be added as the 46th star of the galaxy
of the Star Spangled Banner Then