The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-05-30
Patriotism is ABLY Defined From
Pulpit.
REV. Mr.. kENcAIO'S SERMON
Special Service with Display Of
Flags - why Wars Have Been
Fought Heroes.
From Mondays Daily.)

Yesterday evening patriotic services
were held in the Central Union church.
The interior was prettily decorated
with large American and Hawaiian
flags, draped at the entrance and about
the altar and organ. The singing of
the national songs was spirited, one Of
the most pleasing features being the
singing OF Hawaii Ponoi by the Ka-
mehameha and Kawaiahao girls. Fol-
lowing was the program:
Organ Prelude 80. Patriotic Melodies
Congregational Hymn ............
... God Save Our Native Land"
ResponsiveReading ...... l2l Psalm
Authentic Deum ...... Dudley Buck
President Lincon's Gettysburg Speech
prayer ....... ......... .........,....
Hawaiian National Hymn .......
The Kamehameha and Kawaiahao
Girl Schools.
Congregational Hymn ..........
E. The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Sermon ..... THE Love of Country"
Congregational Hymn ..... America
Organ Postlude -. Patriotic Melodies
Rev. Mr.. Kincaid took for his text
Ps. 1856. II | forget thee. o Jeru-
salem, let my right hand forget her
cunning.
This year on the 30th day of May
wherever the starry flag waves, the
United States will remember her dead
and heap the graves with choicest bios
SONS. Reverently will the most beau
tiful flowers be placed on the grassy
mounds, wherever soldiers sleep.
Patriotism is an old word. 1t is
fraught with no merely secular mean
ing, but expresses lofty feeling and
high inspiration. 1t was the voice of
God that privileged to Abraham the
possession of country, the first OF the
covenants, and the descendants of that
same Abraham are now walking
through the world seeking the open
door through which they may pass to
the land of their fathers.
We have been mainly nation OF
peace. But all of our wars, from the
Revolution to the one recently ended,
have been filed with the spirit Of self
sacrifice the heroic devotion TO coun-
| try. Already the Rebellion seems like
dream to many. \ generation winch
does not remember the great struggle
has already risen up. But there are
some OF us who can distinctly recall
the thrilling hours from the time when
that shot went whistling across
Charleston Bay calling a great people
| to arms. to the time when under the
apple tree of Appomattox, Lee laid
down his sword. We turn with rever-
ence to the great names that illumine
the pages of those dark days. We turn
with feelings of sympathetic sorrow to
| the desolated homes, the bloody
trenches and the dreary prisons.
Bravely they lived, heroically they
died. Beyond the grave God has re-
warded them. We will not forget
those men who laid down their lives
for the cause sublime, nor will We for
get the lessons inspiring love of coun-
try.
There is in every humble breast the
desire to be remembered. Oblivion is
state into which none of us want TO
pass. To be forgotten Is the greatest
sorrow of the death parting. This very
desire to be remembered. to do some
thing which will keep the name I'M
forgotten, exists in the heart of every
American soldier. To this call the
Nation responds and every year,
with tenderest blossoms, the graves Of
our heroic dead are remembered, the
roll Is called again This is the mean
ing of Decoration Day.
From the deeds of our soldier dead
We learn lesson OF noble self-SaCri-
flee. The cup of water handed by Sir
Phillip Sidney to his dying comrade
has been paralleled many times
throughout our national life. Would
1t not be well to tell our children the
story of our liberty and what it cost
and thus inspire them with love OF
country. 4 nation without memories,