The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-07-01

Church, which had been given by the pleiy OF ahc'eh,
times for the church and the poor. FOR mefeed
only look 10 Australia. or New Zealand or prIisn
| Columbia, to see with what avidity the Estaolshed
Church seized upon the lands in the infancy Of these
colonies.
Not, only has the Bishop misrepresented his erede-
cessors in the missionary work here, but he also mis-
represents his own church. He athrms that the dOc-
trine and ritual of this branch Of the English Churcn
a. are strictly in conformity with the laws ana usages
of the Church in England and America. NO" i
certain that .the use of the crucihx, altar ana can
dies" in the church, together with 1.-The hISheSi
teaching on the Presence of the body and Blood OF
Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, and his strongly
anti-Sabbatarian views,'' would not only " shock Inc
Puritan mind but would be highly offensive 10 a
large and respectable portion OF the Church OF Eng
land. Facts go farther with most men than mere
opinions on such a subject Now we know tha' -
not long since the church Of 81. George : IN the Last
in London, was closed in consequence Of disturbances
caused by these very innovations. The BISHOP VIII
remember that when he was at Cambridge, IN 1913,
the substitution Of an altar for a communion table
in the church of the Holy Sepulchre in that city, led
10 a law suit, which was carried up 10 the court OF
Arches, which decided that the altar should be re-
moved. Four years later Mr.. Gorham, having been
deposed by the Bishop of Exeter for denying baptls-
NAL regeneration, appealed and gained his case before
the Queen in Council. Again, in 1855 Archdeacon
Denisou was removed by the Bishop Of Bath for
teaching, the doctrine Of the Presence Of the Body
and Blood of Christ in the Eucharist. We have
read more recently of the deposition Of another priest
for establishing a confessional in his church. There
is no need Of further multiplying these references.
Intelligent laymen of the Church of England, who
have attended the service in the g Cathedral" know
well how these Romish innovations jar on their feel
ings, and how different it is from the service of the
old parish church Of their childhood. Although
such a church may represent the extreme section led
by the Bishops of Oxford and Exeter, and by Arch
deacon Denison, &c, it will not do to tell US that it
fairly represents the Church of England, and still
less the American Episcopal Church, in which Tract
arianism has made less progress.
In reviewing the Bishops pamphlet | have not
noticed all the points in which the American mission
aries are assailed either rs n body or as individuals.
Some of the individuals attacked have answered for
themselves better than any one else could do for
them. My only object has been to vindicate the
truth, and in so doing not Ito extenuate aught or
aught set down in malice 4 simple regard for
justice required that such a mass of misrepresenta-
tons, prepared for a foreign market. should not be
allowed to go forth unchallenged. especially when
bearing the name and prestige of an English Bishop.
La conclusion let me express the hope that as Bishop
Staley in this last Pastoral has brought together
about all the evil which has been said against the
American Mission. in his next he may present the
other side of the picture, and collect all the good that
can justly be said Of them.
| remain.
Yours truly, w. d. ALEXANDER.