The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-01
CATHEDRAL WAS A
SCENE OF MOURNING
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well, Miss B. Tanning. Mrs A. j.
Campbell, Mrs. c. KimbalI. Mrs. Chas.
T. Wilder, Mrs. NJ. c. Monsacrat. Miss
Hartnagle, Miss I. Schaefer, Miss A.
Green, Miss C. Krouse Mrs Consta-
| bic. Mrs. o. II. Quick, Mrs H. F. Davi-
son.
The service consisted of parts of the
| burial service from the Prayer Book
and some other prayers. A large choir
sang favorfte hymns of the deceased,
| including Rock of Ages" and Lead
Kindly Light" There were five clergy
| present besides the Bishop Bishop
Restarick delivered the following ad-
dress:
BISHOP RESEARCHES MEMORIAL
ADDRESS.
| Acts Ix:36: This woman was full
| of good works and almsdeeds which she
did"
Acts We Full of faith and of the
Holy Ghost
The first describes the one in whose
memory this service is held and the
second tells the source of the inspira-
| ton and the power of her life. The
| last gives the cause the first the effect.
We often hear in this day something
! like this-''It does faot matter what you
! believe as long as you do right" If
| this means that right action is of more
| Importance than any mere profession
of BELIEF, then no sensible man will in
| this day deny it. A right acting I'M
| believer is better in the sight of man
and of God than a vicious believer.
But if the words are intended to mean
| that rislst belief is of little or no i'm
portance in life then they are utterly
false. Any enc who thinks must rec
ognize that faith is by far the most
powerful fs,,3tor in human life and
character.
Let a ma have & low faith, let him
believe that the highest aim in life is
"eat, drink. enjoy myself, the rest is
nothing" then that life will have a
tendency to sink to low level and to
be of the earth earthly, On the other
hand if a man has faith in high prin-
ciples, if he has faith in righteousness,
justice, purity, honor, then that life
will have a tendency to seek high
levels And when that faith goes be-
You'd abstract principles, when it lays
hold upon God as the One alone who
when it goes out to the Man in Whom
the wisest and hottest of the ages see
the perfect Man, the One in WhoDn all
the aspirations of the soul are realized,
then that faith rooted in heart and
mind becomes the power which pro-
duces examples of Christian saintliness.
1t enters into life giving motive, in
spiration and direction TO thought, word
and deed and produces in the faithful
a character in some degree like unto
that OF the Master.
God teaches us not so much by the
stating of principles as by giving to us
lives which exemplify them. The
stories of the Old Testament are ever
of living interest to young and old
because they bring to the heart and
mind eternal truths. In that list of
saints in that magnificent chapter in
the Epistle to the Hebrews there is
brought before us by the citation of
examples the mighty energiZing sus-
tanning power of faith in God, in those
who through this faith wrought
righteousness, out of weakness were
made strong, waxed valiant in the
fight
But God has not ceased to teach us
by the lives of saints. Up through the
centuries the Church has never been
without her saints. Among that great
multitude which no man can number
are not only patriarchs, prophets, apos-
ties, martyrs, but there are our own
dear departed of our own age and
knowledge, Who have lived by faith,
who have struggled on and have toiled
and suffered directed and made sted-
fast by a living faith.
FAITH FAITH" says one: what is
1t p Men sometimes speak as if they
thought that it was an irrational sentf-
| ment or some acceptance of some dog
| ma. Faith. Why it is as natural as
/ love and as UNIVERSAL! Tt is the soul
seeking its own. 1t is the spirit of
| man finding its affinity in the spirit of
| God. 1t is the child finding satisfac-
ton in the Fathers love. 1t is the son
| recognizing it's sonship.
| The life of the one in whose memory
this service is held was the expression
| OF her faith. Christian saintliness has
marks of its own. Other faiths may
produce souls strong in submission to
| that which they consider the will of
/ God, and of strong moral character,
| but where should we look to find such
women as Theresa, or Catherine or on
! through the centuries to Hannah Moore
/ or Elizabeth Fry or on to the sairz J
] lives of our own age? Should we look
/ for women such as these as the product
of the Oriental faiths for example?
The faith of the Oriental is that man
| is the bali and that God is the player.
1t finds expression in the Rubaiyat of
Omar Khayyan.
But helpless pieces of the game He
plays
Upon His checker board of nights and
days,
Hither and thither moves and checks
| and Stays
And one by one back in the closet
/ lays"
Yes such faith produces sto1idity, but
stolidity is not Christian saintlipass.
Intellectual and spiritual impassiveness
is OF IA nrlc Of Christi 70 It'll