The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-09
OLD CHURCH CROWDED TO
THE DOORS YESTERDAY
Strong Words of Grief and Praise For the Rare
Woman Who Gave the Empire the
Strength 1t Has Today.

, And what is more to us than life? What
is there in this world for which we
would sell our life? Our Lord says,
What will man give in exchange for
his soul?' There is nothing for which
he would exchange his life. Nothing;
even in this world, how much less the
life beyond the grave.
But this little life which we have
learnt to love SO dearly, but which must
so soon pass away-this life, say. we
may keep, may preserve through all the
endless ages, through Christs promise
of the resurrection of the body. Yes, my
friends, the resurrection OF the body
and the body we know it. No spec
tral vision or spiritual resurrection, but
the body ard the soul reunited, shall;
thank God, stand once upon the earth.
This is Christs own promise.
Our very eyes to see our friends; our
own arms to embrace them in that long,
clinging embrace of reunited love; our
lips to welcome those, who, like our
selves, perhaps have lain for centuries
in the hidden mysteries of the grave.
Yet we live again! Think of it, Is it
a gospel? Is it good news? If not, oh,
God, whence may we search for it? for
death has been the great bar to mans
happiness, and now death is conquered
by the resurrection. 80, death where
is thy sting; o grave where is thy vic
tory?" Like some grim monster in
nightmare, Satan still strives to shake
| over our heads the terrors of death eter-
nal, and the everlasting separation from
our loved ones. But thanks be to God,
and to the devotion of our blessed Lord
| to a suffering humanity, deaths sting
is drawn. 1t was but CHASTITY dream.
| The grave may indeed swallow up our
| dead, and ourselves, now; but 1t must
give up again. 1t must disgorge at
| Christs command. Not a soul, not
spirit, not part of the body, but all, all,
perfect; every whit. All, here is the
great consolation to mankind
| 1.-THE maid is not dead but sleepeth."
We only sleep to wake again. And for
those we love who have gone before, We
should not sorrow, but look forward to
a happy meeting in a happier land
But the grave is great leveller, and
| God is respecter of persons. The
grave and the worms care not what
might have been the worldly state of
| their victim; and when we lay down IN
death our worldly pomp or poverty-and
ii must be soon-the past is gone; the
! Book is closed; the night has come. As
we brought nothing into this world, We
can carry nothing out-no title, no honor,
no wealth-and whether it be prince or
peasant, the resurrection knows no dis
tinction.
1t is not the jewels we have worn on
earth; it is not the sparkling wit, or
the giant intellect that has charmed the
world; it is not the pomp with which our
body has been loaned to the grave, nor
yet the bitter tears that have been shed.
These avail nothing; then will avail only
the purity of the heart, the whiteness of
the soul, that priceless gift, the love of
Christ-all so little accounted of in this
world now.
We are met here today to pay last
tribute of love to the memory of one
whose pure life and Christian virtues has,
we trust. earned for her glorious res
urrection-the exchange of crown OF
gold for crown of life.
!, Her life has not been an easy one, by
, any means. Brought up as a child
quietly and without ostentation, she was
. yet in her girlhood when placed sudden
ly upon the highest pinnacle of power,
Think one moment of the change.
Here she was surrounded by all the
: temptations and allurements of the
world, painted in their most glowing ano
seductive hues, and which Satan knows
SO well how to use to his own advan.
|, tage. But she was untouched, unscath.
/ ed She stood the test, and in "thai
fierce light that beat upon a throne she
e lived her allotted four-score years, an6
, passed away, wearing the white flower
I of blameless life," leaving a recorc
a and a reputation untarnished and un
:, stained; and one, please God, that may
: make her as glorious in Heaven as she
u has beer brilliant on earth.
: This ceremony today testifies to ths
- veneration In which she was held. AND
( let me say on behalf of our British resi-
|. dents that such gathering on this oc
;, casion is an expression of sympathy very
= grateful TO the English hearts so fal
from home. And I think that all Eng
Z lishmen would feel that / had been re
:. miss were I to fail to acknowledge witt
e gratitude the courtesy of the Govern
r ment of Hawaii in giving official recog
- milton to this commemorative service o
a our late beloved sovereign, and which
: we cannot but regard as most graceful
: and touching tribute paid by America
( youngest daughter, to the memory of al
aged and illustrious mother of Kings
e 1t would be out of place for me to at
tempt to eulogize the dead. We al
It know that she was as noble a woman a
e she was esteemed as a Queen: we al
[f know that as a follower of Christ sh,
e. was a faithful and bright example tt