The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-01

ana their nope sure In spite or every
difficulty they have believed in humans
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 braxely seek
ing to give the very highest and best
to their sons and their daughters, and
if these latter have failed in character
they have been faithless children of
most faithful mothers. I thank God
that 1 have had the privilege of know
ing 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.
1t is not the custom of the Church of
which she was such faithful member
to laud her departed children. We lay
them away in the words eff 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 viii understand that I
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.
l have in my hand copy of the Cos
pei Messenger of January, 1873. In it
there is a notice which reads as fol-
lows: wedding. The marriage of the
Rev. Alexander. Macintosh to Mrs.
Alice Won Holt was solemnized in the
Cathedral on st. Stevens morning by
the Bishop. The choir was present.
Hymn PIP was sung at the commence
ment of the service and 213 after the
Benediction. The Holy Eucharist was
celebrated ana the newly married pair
received the Holy Communion
Those who have known her life since
that time when by reason of her new
position she became more prominent in
her work for God and man, know how
that Communion was a mark of her
trust and dependence, in all she was
and all she did, upon God. She had
seen the beginning in these Islands of
the Church of her fathers. teachers from
which Vancouver had promised long
ago and failed to send. And when
at the solicitation of Kamehameha w
a Bishop had been sent she had seen
him come and go. and when Kameha
meha had again written asking for
Bishop she had seen him come.
In all the trials, difficulties, strug-
giles, perplexities of the church she
was always the same in faith and
trust and hope. All that there is up
on these grounds she saw from the be-
ginning. I need not speak of what she
did because her deeds are written in
the hearts of many here present. But
I believe no one appreciates more than
1 how much of what there is here to-
day of the church life and work is
due to her personal influence and
character. I am glad that l told her
something of that which was in my
mind and heart as to this before she
sailed from these Islands. / knew also
from her now happy she was that
peace and eagerness to work now pre-
vail
But this congrega ton composed as it
is of people of different religious or
CARNATIONS or of no religious affili-
alton, is witness to the fact that her
work and influence knew 40 bounds of
church or creed or race. Her heart
and head and hands and feet were ever
willing and eager day and night to
serve men and women because she saw
them all as children of God. Her
whole nature. responding to the nature
of her Friend and Master Jesus Christ,
patience. helpfulness, and seeing the
good in every soul, she went about
doing good and awakening in others
what she had gained through faith in
Him.
fl were to begin to attempt to tell
of the directions her helpfulness took
I should have to tell of men and wo-
men all over these Islands and of
N, ,,oru ~, 70
where 1 go I find homes in which I
am told with affectionate gratitude, of
sympathy cordial interest and kind
ness, shown to men, women and chill
dren.
How many young men have known
her unaffected interest, her hospital
ity and her helpful friendship? How
many women have known her smile in
their supreme moments of Joy, or how
many have felt her sustaining arm in
the hour of their supreme anguish?
How many away from their own
mothers have felt that they had a
mother in her? How many have had
her rejoice with them when they re-
joiced. and weep with them when they
wept?
But why go on. these things are
known to you better than they are to
me. how in poverty sickness, sorrow,
death she was always ready and had
the tact and the power to be helpful.
How many have unburdened to her
their inmost secrets and have known
in her g. comforter, adviser and friend?
God alone knows what this devoted
soul did.
We know something of her ability
to do. It was a little over a year ago
that man, a stranger, was very i'll
here. The doctors had ordered him
home to the Eastern States. He had
a wife and child but was without mon
ey. One Sunday evening after service
I called her and her husband into the
vestry room and said to them: These
people most be sent home. can you
help me- She at once said: II will
meet you at ten o'clock tomorrow
morning. 1 met her and she came to