The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-11-27
.OR, BRIGGS
breaches
Pastor Wadman Follows
With Eulogy of DR..
Shepardson.

| AT the Methodist church last evening
the sermon was preached by DR.. Arthur
H. Briggs. late assistant pastor of Cen
trail NJ. E. Church, San Francisco, and
now on a tour of the world to regain
his health. His text was, ''If L be lift
ed up, by My death will drew all men
unto Me" He dwelt upon the necessity
, of a Calvary, of the necessity of a
! death as a poor man in order to draw
| the poor lest they feel that in the life
and death of a rich man there was lit
! tie in common with their own lives
! That he must die as a common man,
| lest the common man feel that, had
he died as prince, surrounded with
loving tenderness, there was nothing
there for him. His strength lay in the
Cross The whole life of Christ could
be summed up in the phrase self-de-
NAL for others. There was no selfish
ness in the history OF His life and nine
teen hundred years of criticism have
failed to find any evidence of it else
where Nothing else than Calvary
would have revealed the fulness OF,
Gods love. His death appeals to the
degraded and the criminal, and in
spires them with hope for better
things. His death as a malefactor, re-
viled even by the thief on the cross
beside Him, shows His ability to SYM
pathize with the worst of criminals.
He has felt the hand of the law upon
his arm, He has stood before the court
and heard false witnesses swear away
His liberty, He has heard the sentence
of the judge, He has borne His Cross
to Calvary and He has suffered the
death of the criminal.
The Church of Christ is successful
only when it sticks to the lesson of the
Cross, not someone's theory of the les
son. but the lesson itself. The Calvary
Christ calls for the Calvary Christian.
We must all bear our crosses. Every
Calvary Christian has his cross ahead.
May We all be Calvary Christians.
DIR. SHEPARDSON'S DEATH.
After a hymn, the pastor, Rev. John
Wadman, spoke very feelingly of the
severe loss to the community and the
country in the sudden death of Doctor
Shepardson. He spoke of the scheduled
lecture by the Doctor which was never
given and of the announcement to those
who held the tickets that the lecture
was postponed and of the anxiety of
those who had heard the man in the
wheeled chair when the announcement
was made. He spoke of the fact that
though he W. "a comparative stranger
he had so soon become endeared to the
community al large. He spoke of his
erudition, his ripe scholarship, his
strong hold on the deep things Of God.
''Those who held tickets said he,
''were deeply interested in his health
and, as the days passed and We were
told to still keep our tickets, the solicit
tude increased for his health and final
lv the community was shocked by the
death of him who had taken up his
cross gladly.
Perhaps never before in the same
way has the city of Honolulu been
touched. Perhaps never before has
there been such an interest in
stranger. Even those who had never
looked upon the face of DR.. Shepard
son felt that he was working in the
cause of his Master. He had kept to !
his lecture even when his fever was /,
102. His best was given to us. His |
glory was in the Cross of Christ and |
he has entered into the house of his /
Father For years he has borne his !
cross with patience and he was ready .
to lay it down. There was always a !
smile upon his face. although his body /
was never free from pain. He lived a +
life that it was an uplift to have SEEN
And may we tonight send the message
TO his lonely widow and to his brother
and to his many mourning friends in .
the East that their burden is our bur
den and their loss our loss" =