The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-05
st, CLEMENTS
MEMORIAL
Rev. osborne EuIogized the
Memory of a Beloved
Churchman.

morning at the memorial service fok
the late T. Rain Walker, whose recent
death In London has caused much SIN
cere mourning in Honolulu Rev John
| osborne delivered a beautiful memoir
ial sermon, a eulogv of the man with
whom the history of st. Clements IS IN
timately connected. The text of MI.
| Osborne s address was:
How true are those words, I'm the
midst of life we are in death, tor
who knows what tomorrow Will bFlhg
forth.
Is it not wonderful how fearlessly
and carelessly we march on through
life. like blind men, not seeing one
minute ahead of us; and yet we i've as
fearless of accident as though we could
see into the future as plainly as we
see the landscape.
Our life is like a rare bit of China
in daily use-so accustomed TO IL 40
we grow that we seem to lose all fear
of breaking it; we grow to think that
eouIdn t be: but one day comes
at last, it slips from our fingers, and
it falls to the ground--in pieces.
And this is the fate, sooner or later,
of every piece. Some survive longer
than others, but eventually there is
but one end. We may love it, we may
admire it, we may prize 1t ever SO
much. but it's days are numbered; It's
life is limited. What then? is It lost
forever2 All, thank God, no. 1t Will
never be mended, but the fragments
will be gathered up and they will turn
to dust again. But one day the Great
MouIder and Master will remould this
thing of beauty, to come with bis SER
vice once more, and through its resur-
rection it will become indestruetlble
and intensified in its new beauty.
And so it is with one who has just
passed away-one not only well known
in this church, but well beloved7-he has
passed through the valley OF the
shadow of DEATH on well-lit path,
for his lamp was trimmed, and the
| 50 Light of the World his guide.
Nv people, we mourn today our
loved. true, valued friend Thomas Rain
Walker, who fell asleep on his Lord on
Wednesday last, leaving behind him
as a mourning friend every man and
woman that had known him well. TN
Tuesday a cable was received announe-
ing the fact that he had met with
serious accident, and the day following
the sad news of his death arrived. No
particulars having been given, we only
know that he has been called away
he has left US.
For man goeth to his long home,
and the mourners go about the streets.
cor ever the silver cord is loosed,
or the golden bowl be broken, or the
pitcher be broken at the fountain, or
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e'Then shall the dust return to the
earth as it was, and the spirit shall re-
| turn into God, who gave it. -
1t is not my purpose to strive to tell
Won of all his virtues. To eulogize that
man would be '1to paint the lily
Like Abel of old, his life speaks,
q for by it, he, being dead, yet speak
eth. - for wherever he has lived,
| wherever he has. been, the deep I'M
| press of his wonderful influence and
| example for God has been stamped
upon the hearts of his associates, and
| no man ever knew him without being
/ better for it.
| We loved him, we all loved him, for
he was a lovable man, indeed; but ne
/ sleeps now with the just, and, while
| we mourn our loss and drape our
church in loving memory, yet let US
| thank God for the sure and certain
hope of his bright and glorious resur-
rection and for one more added to the
| triumphal hosts of Heaven.
| Oh, pray God we may be there to
meet himi
Since his dav in Honolulu the city
has greatly changed, and many here
have never known him, but those who
do viii only remember the polished
dignifed, courtly gentleman, yet a
modest and devout Christian, a pillar
of the church, man of punctihous
honor and truth, the soul of justice
guileless as a child, yet mighty in de
nunciation of wrong, the champion OF
the weak and prosecuted, whose friend
ship was true as steel.
After residence of some thirty-fve
years in this city, he left record as
white and pure as the snowdrift, the
reflection of which has frightened the
path of many young man on his
homeward way.
1t was through his instrumentality
and that of dear and valued friend
of his, that this church was built, and
he became one Of its trustees.
For years he worshipped and sans
God IS praises in that very seat, anG
| often has he stood. where / now stand
miuistering as my Ioeum tenens. - He
loved this little church, and his inter
est never tagged. although he lived
eight Thousand miles away; and in hi:
call to rest it has lost one of the best
friends it ever had.
But one word about his future. Hi!
body lies peacefully in the grave, anC
: there. no doubt. it will remain unit
the trumpet sounds. " For the trumpe
shall sound, and the dead shall b.
raised, incorruptible. - And then h
will come forth, as shall we ourselves
, TO be judged as to our fitness 70
Heaven.
And here is our consolation, for b.
: is not really dead-he has only gon
before HIS body may erumble away
but his life is intact, awaiting the re
union. not only with his own body, bu
with all those loved ones who hav
loved and believed in Him, whom h
| called Master
/ We all have sorrOwsi We must hav
, sorrow. Some can not be repaired, an
> we must suffer But some can, an
this dark cloud not only has its silve
| lining. but behind its dark face it
charged with the brightness of tn