The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-03-03

: MES ar rejecting the state church principle. and
our more earnest Christians At home are laboring
I, COMPASS IL rejection with the certaEty OF
ultimate success. this cumbrous and medieval
system i offered - a yoke 10 u people who are,
on the Bishop Of Oxtord'S own showing, mcapa-
bic OF Judging Of its merits. The people are
presumed 10 be blind. whatever these thei- would
BE- leaders may be. Il l. true the request tor
this epiScopate emanaJed from the late king but
i i also notorious that the suggestion spTang
from couuselIors who ought 70 have known bet
ter. For the doctrines of this mission are not
such a We hold 70 be the true faith Of Christ
The title which this Anglican branch has as
sumed i indicative Of the dOgmas II proposes 70
teach The Reformed Catholic Church OF Ha-
wall To this title Its doctrines conform. Bap-
ti>mal regeneration and sancJifcation, through
the PRIESTHOOD. are distinctly taught and the
clergy are only waiting for the transmission OF
these subscriptions from England, in order 10
carry out. in all its splendor, the cathedral ser
vices Of the mother church. But, after all. the
natives are not attracted. Curiosity has given
place 70 Indifference. They hold fast 10 their
Old guides. They estimate the doctrines and the
ritual at their true worth, by pronouncing 1t
just like the Roman Catholic With native
shrewdne>s they call only the American Mission
: ProteStants.' and class the Kings Bishop as
they designate MIR. Staley. with the Church Of
Rome.
The plea of poverty which the Bishop of Ok
ford urges on behalf Of that people cannot be sus-
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duty 70 send. at no small cost, our Missionaries
u lands rich in intellectual and material wealth
but surely it is not our duty to graft upon them
q branch of our national church as a state lnstI-
tuition, unless there be some corresponding readi-
ness on the part of such people 10 sustain that
church. In reply, the Bishop of Oxford pleads
the poverty Of the islands. But these islands are
not poor. This fact the Bishop of Oxford him
self admits when his purpose Is to extol and not
70 degrade them. They sent. said he, FIVE hun
l-aH rounds ., rba 1nr1Shf-a Raljaf EnnH
But when he wants money for his cathedral and
the endowment of his clergy, he tells US they
have neither imports or exports since their sam
dal wood failed. They have no means, there
fore, with which 10 build even one church in
which their clergy can minister. But it appears
that they have both imports and exports: and
they are rapidly increasing. Their exports are
sugar, rice, coffee, wool, hides, and
some oil and whalebone, the produce of vessels
belonging to Honolulu. Their export of sugar
alone last year was ten million pounds, and it
will probably this year reach fifteen million
pounds. Their imports correspond. and, by Il
duty Of ten per cent, the expenses of the native
Government are met.
1t may be said that all this prosperity is due
10 English and American enterprise but it is
also true that it is conducted under i Sandwich
Island native Government, and that natives take
their share in the commercial and political life of
the Sandwich Islands nation. They have the
power and the will 10 build both sanctuarieS and
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please for in Honolulu there stands. on the plot
of ground touching the plot on which the An
glican cathedral is 70 stand, n church of the
American Mission. built of the coral reef stone
built by native hands and with native means. in
which MIR. Parker now breaches, and which is
capable Of holding upwards OF two thousand
people.
" We refuse TO believe. therefore. that any
such mission as this is needed or desired in those
Islands. If such an experiment must be tried,
let 1t be on some savage and Vet unreclaimed ma
ton. But then the soil would be uncongenial.
1t requires the forty years labor of men of God,
simple IN faith and prayer. without ritual and
with no endowment or cathedral. to
prepare the way. Such a process takes time,
and such an experiment as this cannot wait. a
invitation TO arise and build, and TO pos
the land which the bows and spears Of other
warriors have won. does not come twice in the
short life of one preIate. To our mind, it is,
using one of the Bishop Of Oxford's own illus
very like an attempt u enter on Ma
vineyard. The ground has been reclaimed,
titled and sown and when the fruit is ripe for
p~lucking the rightful inheritor is to be dispossess-
I'd. Such an attempt is only equalled by the thank
Iessness of those, who, like Queen Emma herself.
all they ever knew, whether in secular or
knowledge, 70 the instruction they re-
;eiyed in the American Mission schools.'