The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-06-10
IN MEMORY
Of THE DEAD

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after recalling to his hearers the duties
both in lite and death OF the iythiaI
bond said.
I hardly know either how to speak oil
how TO be Silent here today. / dare moi
| trust myself to any offhand, impulsivt
! utterances on such a theme. And ye
| / can not but feel how poor and how
| inadequate to the occasion is the bes
| preparation which / am capable Of
| making. l am sincerely and deeply
sensible how untitled / am by emo.
| tons which l should in vain attempt
| TO restrain for meeting the expecta-
tions and the demands of such an hour
or for Justice to an event which has
hardly left a heart unmoved or an eye
unmoistened in our whole community.
Most gladly would 1 still be permitted
| to remain a listener only, and to in
| dulge a silent but heartfelt sorrow for
the loss of so illustrious brother and
| so dear a friend as our late P. c., e,
| NJ White. / find it all but impossible
| to realize the fact that we are assem-
| bled here in our castle hall at a meet
| ing at which whatever is most elo-
| quent whatever is most impressive,
whatever is most felicitous and most
finished ought justly to be heard, and
that c. M. White is not here with US
to say the first, the best, the all-suffi-
cient word. 1 feel myself impelled to
exclaim-and you will all unite with me
in the exclamation, "Oh for the sound
of a voice that is hushed, and the
touch of vanished hand" 1t is hard
ly an exaggerafion to say of him that
he has left behind him no one sufficient
to pronounce his eulogy as it should be
pronounced; no one who can do for
him all that he has done for so many
others who have gone before him.
But, indeed, my friends, the event
which has called us together has oc-
Cured too suddenly, too unexpectedly,
for any of US to be quite prepared
either for attempting or for hearing
any formal account of our departed
brothers career or any cold analysis
of his public or private character. 1
need not dwell for moment upon the
purity and beauty Of his daily life, upon
his devotion to his family, his fidelity
TO his friends, his integrity as a man,
his untiring willingness and eagerness
to do kind and obliging things for all
who, reasonably or unreasonably, ask
ed them at his hands, at any cost of
time or trouble to himself.
/ need not say that Mr.. Whites heart
was as large as his brain; that love for
humanity was an inwrought element of
his nature. This was so complete, so
broad, in him that it touched all sides
of humanity, so to speak. 1t was man
ifest in a kindness and regard that
keep their silent record in many pri-
vate hearts, in a hand ever open and
ready to help; in one of the kindest
faces ever worn by man, the express
sion of which was "a meeting of gem
tie lights without a name"
We must remember that no life c1osea
without sadness. Death, after all, no
matter what hope or what memories
surround it, is terrible and a mystery.
We never part hands that have been
clasped lifelong in loving tenderness
but the hour is sad. Still we do not come
here to weep, but. in the spirit of the
great life which we commemorate the
hour is for the utterance of a lesson.
This hour is given to contemplate a
grand example, a rich inheritance, a
noble life worthily ended. remembering
that the bed of death brings every
man to his individuality.
&c. NJ White has gone" Gone to his
home, not the habitation of earthly
peace and quiet night, with domestic
comfort and joy, but to the dark and
narrow home appointed for all the sons
of men, and there to rest until the
morning light of the resurrection shall
CLEAN in the east.
AS a Knight of Pythias he was dis
tinguished and eminent. He rose step
by step from the humblest rank to that
of Chancellor Commander, which office
he held at the time of his death.
Some men are made great by the
| power which wealth bestows. Some
are made great by reason of office;
| others because of the loving suffrages
of their fellows. To this class belongs
our illustrious brother. Death is an
event to high and low alike, but to
the truly good it is gain.
Fifty-seven years he had lived, and
when the summons came he passed
from among men, like one who gath
ers the drapery of his couch around
him and lies down to pleasant dreams" "
In conclusion, will say that Broth
ers McCready and Borba will long be
| remembered by the Pythians of the
present generation in the Domain of
Hawaii, and while, like all men, there
| Will be those with whom they differed,
yet there will be few, if any, in the
| Pythian field wherein they labored so
| long and so faithfully that will have
aught but kindly words to say regard
| ing them.
Peace to their ashes. The benedic-
| ton Of their many, friends and brethren
| are now falling upon their graves like
| dew.
In memory of DR.. Francis Root Day
and Louis Marks, both of whom pass
| ed to the life beyond in this month.
| year ago, Fred Waldron of Mystic
Lodge, to which they belonged, said:
Our duty here today is to render our
| tribute of love and respect for, and
| .s-s-s-s-s-s-
| port is true, he was hired to under
| take for an ad, did you ever hear of
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