The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-09-12

Nh. EprToE Il observe in your las, issue. in an
extract from the Christian U..zsss ami Church
.Iir5cl's. a paragraph continuing an accaun, Of a
letter from His Majesty the King 10 his Consul in
London, praying tHa, a Bishop Of the Church Of
England be sent out To organize the branches O. the
Christian church in hs own domjuious."
Coming from the lips of the Bishop oE Oxford be
fore the Convention OF the Church q England, l
took :or granted that tine statements contained in tha;
article must be true; but upon a closer analysis ot
the whole statement. I am satisfied that 1t contains a
series Of incorrect statements, receiving their color
entirely from the mind Of his Lorlship, and not from
any letter Of the King.
/. Il SAYS the King has addressed a letter to his
Consul, &c. Now i, Is known that a Sovereign Is
not in the habit Of addressing his Consul by personal
correspondence. but through his Minister; the letter
whatever it VS.. must therefore have been penued
by his Minister OF Foreign Affairs TO Mr.. NJ. Hopkins
in London, and :r any expression therein contained,
the latter alone i responsible
). Il says the Roman Catholics have Bishops, etc,
here. Now any truthful writer residing here would
never have made such "a statement.
3. q" The King mentioned that Protestant d~issenters
had a mission here This also is untrue. The
American Mission have never disSeuted or seeded
from the Church Of England, or any other church,
tltE achuOW 4tl-e anu 4G4ttHSAAl WIZ - q u
Church of Christ.
4 " lie found that there was not fxity enough Of
purpose, faith, or discipline, in their mission" Who
has ever known an American enterprise carried pros
perously forward for forty years, without "fxity of
purpose:'' Who has ever known q company of evan
gelis,s 10 preach and labor for a lifetime, without 4
= fxity OF fiith:' And how would they have built
up = community of churches on heaJhen soil. aud
united them into a harmonious whole, without a
fxity II - faith and disciPljue;'
). " But the only body that could render his peo-
pie free from the errors OF Rome, ami hand down 4
pure faith 10 po>tcrity, was the Church OF England"
His Majesty well knows, for he IS well read in all the
events of the times, that the Church Of England with
all the orthodoxy OF her articles, and with all her i'm
mense wealth and prestige, and with all her great
and good men, Is unable 10 purge her clergy of the
faint OF Romanism on her own soil, or prevent the
passing over from her own fold into popery, the many
thousands that have lef, her. So much for her power
at home. Knowing all these facts, His Majesty could
have never written rs above quoted.
6. The Emperor of the French spared no pains
to gain over the King himself, for he had sent him 4
magnificent service Of plate" This is the most ridi-
culous statement of the whole. An astute Sovereign
of Europe sends 4 token Of political friendship to the
King Of Hawaii, and the Bishop Of Oxford tells the
Convocatiou, that it is a Popish Mission sent to con-
vert him ;. " Creiat JuaeuS -4DeNa."
1t seems the Kings letter TO his Consul WAS not produced he
fore the Convention. The Bishop Of Oxford only is responsible
for that paragraph. 1t was intended to convey the impression
that His Majesty Of Hawaii, while acknowledging the consttu-
Of any established church. wishes to reconstruct the churches Of
Hawaii on the English Episcopal model, and appoint over them
a Bishop ami PreSbyters. in order 10 avert the threatened dan
ger of the kingdoms being perverted to RomaniSm. lie has
Therefore selected a churci, engaged in an UNEQUAL and losing
struggle at home with the Church Of Rome. as his only hope Of
preserving a pure filth. There is nothing said Of what is tohe
done with The present pastors Of the several churches who bull.
them up. and are IahoIiouSiy sustaining them. But a natural
consequence would br they are 10 be discarded.
Now. MIR. Editor, our obvious Inference Is. that our good King
has no such purpose in view. lie well knows that lac has not .
more loyal class Of subjects ia his realm, than the Hawaiian
Protestant pastors, none more attached to the hest interests of
his kingdom. none whose removal would hr attended with greater
injury to civil or literary progress in the nation, not to mem
ton its injustice.
know no. the contents of the letter alluded to. 1t doubtless
contained an Invitation that an Episcopal Clergyman he sent to
reside here as his chaplain, and To build up a congregation At
To such a measure there could be no objection. hut
many reasons in its favor. But the establishment OF an Episco-
pal Hierarchy IN a lstie kingdom OF GJ,OOO people, already occu-
by Protestauts ana Catholics would be quite ont Of the
question. Out Of Honolulu there could not be found u people
not already gathered to either one or the other.