The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-03-22
LAY THE CORNER
STONE OF CHURCH
with Mortar Stronger Than Any
That the Builder VIII
Supply U.s."
BISHOP DELIVERS ADDRESS
New Sacred Edifice Dedicated
Yesterday to Service of
Man and God.

The instability of most things in con-
trast to the permanence of one, thing
formed the keynote of the address Civ
en- by Bishop Edwin H. Hughes yester-
day afternoon at the laying of the
cornerstone of the new Methodist
church at Beretania and Victoria street.
In his address the bishop took up
the things of the world which enter
into the lives of most men, analysed
them brutally and cast them aside as
transient. The first thing he spoke of
was man, more unstable than all the
rest. The last thing he discussed was
one of the institutions of mankind, not
an-made nor conceived by men-the
Church-and in that he and his audience
with him worked out the thing of great
est permanenee.
The address was as masterful as it
was simple and all-embracing. The
rough, halflaid floor of the church and
the street outside were thronged with
people who heard the address and who
will find it hard to forget, for Bishop
Hughes speaks in wav that makes
plain truths stand out very naked and
uncloaked by any sentimentality of
voice or bearing
After prayer and song, shop Hughes
prefaced his address with a simple re-
quest for quiet He wanted to be heard
and occupy the center of the stage and
he was heard but he did not occupy
the center of the stage. Only his words
did.
He spoke first on the symbolcal
similarity between the Church and the
cornerstone, an old sentiment. the an
auditors. It did not appear. as it had
often appeared before in platitudinal
garments, and it was unrecognized in
its plain reality as presented by the
speaker.
oman does not go very far in life,' -
said Bishop Hughes. "before he is con-
could prophesy that every one of the
forgotten inside of the century. 1t is
unpleasant, but it is none the less true,
that we disappear from life-dsappear
| to be seen no more. Such is the tenn
porary character of reputation
|
| to the instability of its layers had been
but step. From the layers to their
characteristics had been step no
longer than the first The bishop talk
ed of Samuel F. Smith, the writer of
"America'i; of his grave seen by the
speaker in a New England graveyard on
Fourth of July few years after the
death of Smith. On that day there had
a ~ 4,
grave of the man who had written the
Nation Is song Reference was made to
another meeting of officers of the Re.
public, President Mckinley, one OF
| them, at the time the latter delivered
| his great address on his Philippine
policy. At that time no mention was
made of the name of James g. Blaine
who had died comparatively few years
before and whose very spirit had arisen
at the meeting
Bishop Hughes concluded this part
of his subject with reiteration of his
opening sentiment. Although II may
not be gratifying to the people here
century hence we will all be Ia ouI
graves.
Therefore II Is well that our inau
ences and thoughts should be deposited
In places permanent enough 10 hold
them for decades" From that the ora
Tor came again 10 the cornerstone,
"More enduring than the letters pre-
served IN II are the influences No put
into ihe Church ~ Christ
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audience ~ ordinary Intelligence,
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