The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1872-03-20
The Bishop of HonoluIu.

In our issue Of Wednesday last, we published
piece Of interesting news from London ex
tracted from an English Journal, informing
US that a new Bishop had been consecrated to
the See of Honolulu by the Archbishop of Can
) terbury and various other bishops and high dig
nitares Of the Established Church Of England.
We were told that the Dean OF Rochester preach.
Bishop of Honolulu, DR. Staley, was also pres
ent.
After abiding in appropriate terms to the Ia
mentable fate which lately befell another English
Bishop, on the Island OF Santa Cruz, one Of the
Solomon Group, and impressing upon the new
incumbent of the Honolulu diocese the duty Of
being prepared for it, the Venerable Dean applied
himself to the business in hand and informed the
audience that the new Bishop going out to his
/ See in Honolulu, was sent to the heathens and
the refuse Of civilization who mingled with
them! Poor Bishop Willis how his heart
must have sunk within him as the character of
his new field was thus abruptly laid before him.
he may have entertained brighter imagnings aud
higher hopes Of his future labors 10 the Pacific
After many years of dreary toll in the religious
sOughs as parish priest on the banks of the
Thames, he may have INDUCED in visions Of some
bright little isle Of the ocean" where man was
good and God was near; bat the memorable
Dean has spoiled the picture and the stern reality
meets him at the threshold that he must still |
blaze away at the heather" and still sweep
away the refuse which ltters the floor of his /
cathedral. In his quiet home on the river side, /
be may have read or have been told that ten years
ago Bishop came out here as he now is coming. 4
and ne may have expected something better to
meet him than heathens' and refuse;" but
there stood the ex- Bishop in solemn silence, like
a dummy at a funeral, and had not word to say
to the crushing charge Of the eloquent Dean-s
silence more culpable than the grossest libel.
We regret much that the new Bishop should
have been misled at the outset by the ignorance Of
one prelate and the silence of another. lie has
been promised a sight of the "heatheus" aud
brush with the refuses" but We fear much thatthe
only heather" he will find will prove to be the
" Heather Chinee," and the only refuse" that may
obstruct his path will prove to be some supernuu-
erary regionisis of various denominations, who
have either mistaken their calipgs or missed their
way IN the labyrinth of the Lords Vineyard
We would not recrimnate. 1t is far better, in
the long run, Ito suffer wrong than to do wrong"
and there is a Nemesis even IN theological mat
tiers, by whatsoever name we may invoke it. But
when Dean Of Rochester and Master of Ba.
ol, openly denounoes the community of Honolulu
and Of the Hawaiian Group as consisting Of
.heathens and the refuse Of civilization who min
yled with them" it is due to ourselves as well as
to him, that his ignorance be exposed; and when
IN ex.Bishop of Honolulu sanctions, with his
presence and acquiesces by his silence to so foul
SANDER upon his late beneiactors and patrons, it
5 time to protest, in the name of truth and COM
non decency, against so gross an outrage. And
We heartily hope, that the gross ignorance Of the
,ne prelate, and the effect of the silence Of the
,ther, may be signally rebuked by the cordial
reception ard the speedy dis-illusion of the new
Bishop on his arrival in this country. Such would
,e the best, and the proper Christian way of
the one and OF rebuking the other.