The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-04-02
OLD CHURCH
PENED
dFrom Mondays Daily)


which has been rechristened the Rice
Memorial Chapel" This church is one
of the Oldest in the Islands and has
for many years been ruin except for
the strong old stone walls 1t has been
completely renovated, furnished with a
new roof and beautifully ceiled and is
now in excellent condition.
The church was beautifully decorated
yesterday, the platform and pulpit be-
ing a mass of greens and flowers and
tropical potted plants being arranged
about the walls. A cross of white ole
anders and delicate ferns was placed
on the minister's table in the center OF
the platform and great yellow-tinted
punches of freshly blossomed royal
palm flowers had been placed in vases
and jars and arranged among the ever
greens with tasteful effect.
The Kawaiahao church choir occu-
pied the platform on the right and at
the left was the historic old pulpit
brought here many years ago from Con-
necticut, the story of which was re-
lated in his address by Rev Mr. Wes-
tervelt. The center of the stage was
occupied by Rev. Messrs. KinCaid, Par
ker Westervelt Desha and Timoteo
the church piano being in the rear
The services began with an anthem
by the Kawaiahao choir and the in
vocation was pronounced by Rev. c. s.
rimoteO. After congregational hymn
Rev. H. II. Parker read the Scripture
lesson in Hawaiian, with a few re-
marks. Another hymn was sung by the
choir and Rev. w. NJ. Kincaid of Cen
trail Union church made an address.
II wish" said he, that l might speak
the Hawaiian language so that / could
express to you more fully my impress
sions and feelings upon this, the open
ing of your new house of God. 1t gives
me much pleasure this afternoon to
meet you all here at the opening SER
vices of this beautiful chapel of wor-
ship and bring to you the congratula-
tons Of Central Union church, con-
CALCULATIONS upon the great work done
in the past. being done in the present
and which will be done in the future
by your splendid Kawaiahao church. of
which this beautiful new chapel is a
branch, dedicated to the worship of the
worlds great Savior.
"I want to speak to you about the
mission of the church. the mission of
all churches, Of every church under the
name of Christ You will remember
that Christ said to His disciples, Give
We, lend ye.' This is the great mission
of all churches of God. We may well
take a lesson from the fault of the dis
ciples: while they were eager to preach
and to do good they were anxious to
escape all responsibilities, as when
they grew anxious about the multitude
TO whom Christ was preaching, and see
ing there was no food to feed them
with and no place of shelter, they want
ed to send them away. Picture for
yourself the Scene-Christ preaching to
five thousand people, who listened and
were oblivious to all else but His
wordS-obliviouS to hunger, ObliviOuS to
thirst, oblivious to time, drinking in
the message of the Savior See the dis
ciples standing about and becoming
more anxious as the sun sank lower;
they knew the people would be hungry
and there was naught to eat; they
would thirst and there was nothing to
give them drink; they We're on plain
and the villages were far away. Final
ly the sun dropped behind the horizon
and their anxiety prompted them to
speak to the Master. They went to Him
and suggested that He send the people
away, for they hungered and We're
thirsty and should be sent to the neigh
fell; they did not want the responsible
ity. Did Christ send them away? No.
Christ never sent any one away. You
may search from Genesis to Revela-
tions and you will fail to find where
He sent any one away. Wretched peo-
pie often came to Him-lepers and peo-
pie with all manner of sickness. the
dying thief on the cross. the poor sim
ming woman-dd He send them away?
No; He has said Come unto me all We
that labor and are heavy laden, and !
will give you rest and He has never
sent any one away.
When the disciples went to Him and
told Him that the people must be sent
away because they would be hungry
what did He do? Why. He simply said
Let them eat The disciples We're as
tonished, and they told Him that II
was impossible. What have you to
feed them? asked the Savior and when
they told Him there were only two
lonves OF bread and some small fishes
lie took the loaf and broke II and pass
ed II among the crowd, and as the
bread was broken II Increased, and
there was food for all. twelve basketfuls
OF crumbs were carried away when all
~ them had been satisfied by some
divine arithmetic tnere was more when
they had all fed than there was at the
beginning,
1T IL always the same with the
bread Of life, for was Il not the bread
Of life that Christ passed among the
multtudes2 We have the bread NJ life
with us today II h the gospel NJ our
savior and tho spirlt NJ HIS great ro-
liglon, Let us take this bread NJ HE
and pass II % the hungerinE souls
about us II win surely grow as We
hand Il out
why there Is not one NJ us who
would not II We saw some famlshing
ono asking for bread give him assist
anre ANA satisfy his hungeri but We
dn NOT realize an We do not rrallse
what great starving rlly NO have
phpui US. starving tor lhr bread ol llln
Maybe on mo very street whore YOU
moo. .aYIa4.a unEI IaaT IA kHuT home