The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-09-01
IN MEMORIAM
MRS, MACINTOSH
A LARGE AND REPRESENTATIVE
GATHERING DOES HONOR TO
THE MEMORY OF DECEASED.

The memorial services for the late
Mrs. Alexander Macintosh, who died
last week in Germany, drew large at
tendance to the Anglican cathedral yes
terday afternoon. The chancel was
tastefully decorated and Mrs. Mackin-
tosh's late pew was filled with white
Easter lilies and white carnations The
mourner's pew was occupied by Arthur
Macintosh, son, and Cecil Brown and
Godfrey Brown, brothers, of the de-
parted; Mrs. Cecil Brown, Miss Ada
Rhodes, Mrs. Chapman, Judge @. F.
Hart, Miss Irene Dickson and Hon. A.
S. Cleghorn.
Bishop Restarick delivered an address
which was deeply effective to the many
present who knew the deceased. He
said in part:
There are some people in whose pres
ence unbelief falters and fails. There
are women in whose presence no man
has doubts of purity. There are those
in whose deaths Immortality seems
very real and Paradise seems very near.
! Alice Macintosh was one of these
Il have spoken on more than one Oc-
casion in public of my estimate of the
many noble and sanity women in these
Islands to whom under God is so large
| " due the best life represented in Ha-
wall mel Whatever have been the con-
| ditions around them their ideals have
! always been clear their faith SteadfaSt
and their hope sure In spite of every
difficulty they have believed in humani-
! ty and have seen the real good in men
and women behind their sins and their
faults. They have been sOrely tried
but they have kept on bravely seek
/ ing many of these noble women, the
! to their sons and their daughters, and
! il these latter have failed in character
| they have been faithless children OF
most faithful mothers. I thank God
that I have had the privilege of know
| inv many of these noble women the
mothers of this generation. To learn
some of the lessons from one of these
! lives We are gathered in this church
today,
ut is not the custom of the church of
| which she was such a faithful member
to laud her departed children. We lay
them away in the words of faith and
of hope as found in the Book of Com
mon Prayer which have for generations
been read over all alike whether prince
or peasant, saint or sinner, leaving
Judgment to God. But the life Of our
dear departed one is so well known
to you that you will understand that
am but trying to Impress upon the
living the lessons Of her devoted life
and I should speak because these les
sons are of value to the living.
"She was in her desire to be helpful
a typical product of the spirit which
conditions in these islands induced. HeT
hospitality, helpfulness, sympathy par
took of the atmosphere of the country
The former isolation of the islands
when one had to telp another or ne
would be helpless indeed the spirit
which has shrunk from having a pool
house or anything which savored OF
making one a pauper, Alice Mackintosh
was the embodiment of this spirit. Sht
never to the end could bring herself tc
act otherwise than she did when Homo
lulu was an isolated village, when there
were no hotels or hospitals or nurses
AS long as she had home it was hard
for her to give up the habit of making