The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-01-20
FRIENDS PAY
LAST TRIBUTE.
Funeral of D. g.
CamarinoS Held
Yesterday.
Large Turn Out and
Very Many Beautiful
Floral Offerings.
Many Business Houses Close Dur
ing the Hours Of the
Service.

the city gathered with the relatives and
friends of the late Demetrius George
Camarinos at the undertaking pa1lors
of H. H williams on Fort street yes
terday afternoon to testify their grief
for the dead, and their respect for his
memory. The floral tributes were num-
erous and very beautiful, and when the
sad gathering was assembled it was
seen that the bier was entirely covered
with these offerings.
| The funeral services were under re
direction of Rev G. L. Pearson, pastor
| of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
I'VE have met here" Mr.. Pearson said,
ito pay our tribute of respect and of
love to the memory of this man. You
knew him, many of you, better than 4
did. You knew him in aspects that II
did not know him. He was not perfect.
None of US are. Being human, we havel
all of US our human frailties But our
frailties are not character Faults gol
to that but they are not all. And
whatever the reputation of a man mayI
be-and even in place as small as this
a man may be misrepresented-his rep
utation is not his character That is in !
Gods hand, and it may be safely lefti
there. God is the judge of US all III
reality and at the last. He knows us
all, from our babyhood, and He will
judge us, but not as men judge. His
judgment will be given with full knowl-
edge. And in the hands of God we can
safely leave this man, as we will all
one day be left
In the midst of life, we are in death !
So am reminded by this sudden taking !
off of the man who, walking beside a !
precipice, said that but a step was be-
tween him and death. But one step, |
and he would go down into the dark
ness. vanishing from sight. So this
man was taken: But God is over us !
all, and has marked out the way of
life of every man. He makes no mis-
takes. L suppose you all know that
where from old days they have rails
ed men who met the world as
strong men meet it. suppose
that you all know that he was in
business in San Francisco for a long
time before he came to Honolulu to
cast his lot with the people of this city.
He was a man of strong friendships, a
man who was beloved by his compan-
ions and who was kind to his relatives
Our hearts go out in this hour to the
brother and sisters who, though not
among US, are sorrowing now that he
should have been taken. Their grief
reaches to this bier. and finds an echo
in our hearts. Let us draw from this
grief, and from his life and death a
lesson that will enable US to so live
feel that We have made true rrienos
among our companions and associates
friends whose sorrow will reach
across the gulf that is between this life
and the next.
LET US so live that we. also. at the
asst may be safely left in the hands of
God. In that judgment we may all
lbide, for God knows the human heart,
lot as men know it, but as it really is.
God will judge US by that which we
'eally are, not by that which the world
# man has made us. From the eye
If the Almighty nothing is hidden, and
It that judgment seat no human bias il
will prevail. Before God the man must I
tand as he has been in his most secret v
thoughts, and his real motives of life C
will find their true Interpretation. c.
Whatever the act may have been. God s
NEW the motive of it, and God will 81
Judge it mercifully, knowing that we fe
re human. We can leave this man, II
onfidently in the hands of God. And q
re can extend our sympathies to those L
tho loved him and who are left behind. hi
nth the hope that God will deal with te
ray"
At the conclusion of the prayer the u
ody was taken to Nuuanu cemetery, t.
here the interment took place, and n,
as followed by one of the largest flu,
eral corteges seen in Honolulu for a
ing time. The services at the grave
ere brief, but most impressive. The ~
ali-bearers were P. NJ. Lucas, T. Nc ST