The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-06-12
WHEN HERON Welded
THE APPLIED CHRISTIANITY
MANS NUPTIALS.
Remarkable Address by the Rev.
Brown-A Wedding that Was Simply
an Announcement.

NEW YORK May 27.-The following
address was made by the Rev. William
r. Brown at the wedding of Professor
George ID. Heron and Miss Carrie
Rand, after the bride and grown had
announced" their choice of each other
neither taking any pledges:
II canot but feel, as all of us meet
today, the Importance of words hitting
ly to express or announce TO the world
that which this occasion means. This
is the time and the place for the muse
of a poet; the speech of a god; the Office
of priest or magistrate were an intru-
sion here. Better than all would 1t be
if the fact of which we here are con-
scious might be announced to the world
in the sweet strains of some wordless
music.
But since these real friends and
comrades have honored me with the
task of speaking for them a word of an
nunciation concerning this sacred con-
summation of their life, l joyfully res
pond. And the one word which above
all others impreses itself upon me as
suggestive of that which brings us here
is the old word sacrament l know il
comes to us from the buried years adrip
with blood and mOuldy with superstl-
ton; and yet it is a human word, and
through it throbs the yearning and
struggle and climb of race.
I'VE are not here to establish re-
lationship which otherwise would not
have been. We are not here to inau-
gurate or consummate marriage. No
words of ours or anyones can add to or
take from the truth and solemn1ty or
the sublime fact of a reciprocal love
uniting soul to soul by a sanctum in
the presence of which all human enact
ments seem profane and impotent, for
this is the supreme sacrament of hu-
man experience. There is something
! 81. ,fal fr.aV afnAC oil oil
things and proclaims its inherent div
Unity.
1--WE are here today to announce to
the world the oneness of two human
souls in love that reflects and mani
| tests and reproduces somewhat of the
essence of that infinite love which ami
mates the universe. This oneness no
more begins today than God does. 1t
has no beginning and can have no end
| The discovery of such oneness is the
| discovery of life, the laying bare the
very soul of the cosmos. Time loses its
meaning. There is no yesterday and
no tomorrow in the married harmony
and the joyous rhythm of two such
souls. There is only an eternal now
| and life rises above its narrow limita-
! lions and seems to merge in the all
/ living and ALLOWING. Let the fleeing
years bring what they may, it cannot
: matter Love holds all the years that
| is universal and it's reign eternal. And
| it lives only to give itself in ever
| Astounding richness to the hungerinS
needs of men.
These friends of our announce today
! their marriage. They do so not prim-
| arily because our faulty human laws
require it at their hands but for a
I deeper and diviner reason. They do not
assume that their life belongs to them
| alone-nor even that this supreme af-
| lection which has made them one dis
closed do them the face of God and
TRANSPORTED all this earthly life with
His shining foot prints is theirs &c
hoard and hide.
"In asserting the limitless freedom
and boundless authority of love they
but disclose the full-robed liberty of the
sons of God and anticipate a worlds
emancipation. They do not announce
that they have now separated theiI
life from the rest of the world. They
announce a fuller, deeper, richer har-
mony with that divine life which is
emergent in the unfolding aspirations
theirs as separate individuals"