The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-14
ALL HONOR
MEMORY Of
ATHERT0N
Friends Gather and
Pay Highest
Tribute.
(From Mondays daily.)

He was a man who never did a
| wrong thing, nor ever gave to a sub
ordinate a direction to do wrong"
| Such high praise was given the late
Joseph b. Atherton yesterday by man
who had been his bookkeeper and cash
Ter in past and his partner in more
recent time. And that is high praise.
There was "a large attendance of the
leading men of the city at the memo
rial services held by the Y. NJ. c. \.
in its han yesterday afternoon for the
man who had for three terms served
as president of the organization, and
faithfully served.
The services were led by j. p. Cooke,
presidency, and who spoke with great
fervor of the man who is gone. The
services began with prayer offered by
w. A. Bowen, who had been the cashier
of the firm of Castle & Cooke, long ago,
and In later days n partner of that
firm, of which Mr.. Anterior was for so
long the head. The prayer itself was
a tribute to the man whom all mourned
so sincerely
Then Mr.. Cooke announced that the
lesson of the service would be from
that sadly sweet chapter of First Cor
inthians, which is known as the death
chapter, but which is so wonderfully
consoling to humanity in the last
affection. We have come together"
Mr.. Cooke said, ito honor the memory
of n man we all loved. For three terms
he was the president of our society,
accepting the presidency the third time
when he was too i'll really to do the
work. but because he thought it was
his duty to accept it, and because there
was found no younger member who
would take it. l admit that it is with
trepidation that l have
taken up the work that has fallen from
his able hands. He was a man who
did well whatever his hands found to
do, a man whose whole life was full
Of love for his kind. a man who showed
his love to God by his love for his !
The president of the Y NJ. C. A. then |
introduced p, c. Jones, who had been |
4 school fellow of Mr.. Atherton in |
Boston sixty years ago and who spoke
rom heart filled with love for him |
loluu by his noble life.
I'VE We're at school together in Bos-
on, sixty years ago, Mr.. Atherton and /
>" said Mr.. Jones. I'VE We're born in
hat town, within a few blocks of each
'ther. We attended the same school,
md we went into business at the same
line. For sixty years he was in my
mind, more or less, all the time, and
n those days of our young manhood
II Boston l used to meet him every day
II my life, He was interested in relig-
Gus work, even then, though I was
lot. l came to Honolulu in 1857 MIR.
\therton, who was of delicate consti-
utlon-there was consumption in his
amlly-Was compelled finally TO leave
he rigorous New England climate and
lie came here in 1858. He went into the
mploy, first of ID. G. Waterman, a
lite later going with the firm of Cas-
lie Il Cooke, OF which he afterwards
ecame the head. He had been n close
communion Baptist in Boston, but
mere was no Baptist Church here when
e came, and he allied himself at once
win the old Fort Street Church. In
nat church his agency drew me to think
pom religion, and l may say that his
nhuence finally made me a Christian.
u an my dealings with him, in religious
York in business, as fellow members ,
n many boards of trustees, his infiu-
nee upon me was always IA good in
uence' loved him, If any man in
he world ever had the true Christian
pirlt' he had 1t, He was no fair ,
,eather CHRISTIAN. His faith sustained :
i'm through all trials, and brought him
triumphant In all my knowledge OF
I'M, though / have seen him aroused l
righteous wrath, l never knew him q
, give way to anger, He was n man
no mad the love of God in his heart, IL
yer man had. He showed 1t in that I
reat charity which led him to help his \
Elbow men always. No man knows. !
o man will ever know, how much he
Id In the way OF charity. No man ever
eht 10 nm, asking help. and needing
Z, VINO found that help refused. S
i mad thought he had been president ,
Ut twice OF the Y. NJ. C. A, but
new that from the first he took a deep
iterest In the work OF this institution. q