The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-07-01
Fifty Years Of Faithful Service of
Rev. Henry H. Parker Remem-
bered by Members and Public
Alike, Who Extend Good Wishes
to Man Who Has Spent Half a
Century in Christian Work.
Queen Liliuokalani Joins With
Throng in Praising Good Man
Jubilee Of Hawaiian Board Also
Observed Officers Are Elected
During Days Business Session
Sunday School Exhibit.
tTrom Sunday Advertlser)

Trees which had not been planted
when he accepted the call to the Ka-
waiahao pastorate bestowed n gener-
Gus shade yesterday upon the Rev.
Henry II. Parker, receiving the con
CALCULATIONS of Territory upon his
attainment of his Golden jubilee OF
service. 80
Queen Liliuokslani, surrounded by.
her friends, watched the visitors file
by During the time which has elapsed
since the man who was being congratu'
lated spoke his first sermon in the
church, not only had those trees risen
to generous growth, but tlthree kings
had lived, reigned over the Islands,
had died and left her heir; she had
reigned, had been deposed by her sub
iects and watched from the sdelines OF
history the making of n new American
State.
Yet, except for the fact that the
people who flocked by were the grand
sons and granddaughters of those who
bowed their heads in prayer with their
pastor fifty years before, except for
! the trees, except for tho patient, aged
face of the queen, this was HaWaii as
the missionaries had found it, and
worked in it and embodied their per.
sonalities in its history and its life.
Majesty sat. in the background, watch
ing the respectful homage to religion
that had once been paid to royalty II.
! But the aged liawaians who slipped
| from the waiting line to bow before
the old Queen and the many whites who
| passed to extend respectful saluta-
| ton, indicated that if religion had en-
dured better than royalty, the second
great influence, the native. one, endured
beside it.
The old coral church stood as it mad
! been built in lS49. In the background
was the first home Of the missionaries,
where they planned for a new Chris
| tan people by the Spring of Hao, But
the empty plains did not still extend
for several miles over the now populous
MalSiki and Ipnahou districts; Punch
bowl did not rise abruptly out of a
treeles!, houseless plain as it did in
those days. Those who watched the
! incoming of civilization, and lad bowed
\ first to the name of Christ lay in the
| peaceful churchyards which they had
reserved to themselves out Of the feqdal
estates wrenched from an old system
10 make n new. The figure of Mourn
| ing, WeePihS over the graves Oh the
missionaries who sleep beside their
charges, stirred not nor looked up. or
i gavcsany sign of the pleasant revelries,
the happy greetings and newer music
that was a4imating the lawns near by
Many Pay Respects. u
i Fropc;s Provn grondsop of Jobn ii
who s;gned the n,Tl IN tLo K.waiahao
mint tbat Mr. parker obeveI fifty
Years ye,rs aoo recaiyo1 tbe visitors Ind in.
f,odn.ed tbem to tbe minister who he.
dontad n;th ia;S and no ',Ier, no he Inns
over been smiled at The hundreds who
eronaad aro,nd him .n1 be sbooL each
NV tSe b a' ''' ~ : 0 ~
The Grounds from four O clock. when