The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-12-30
HoNoLrLr. pecember 2O. $50.


Ny LORD: We beg TO acknowledge
dated December 18th in reply to ours OF
November l4th referring to your notice
changing the hours at which the Second
Congregation have for five years been
accustomed to hold divine service in the
cathedral.
We do not admit that your notice is IN
accordance with the terms OF the sche-
dule OF December 1, 1885, which actu-
ally contains no provision, expressed or
implied, authorizing such changes being
made without consulting, or ascertain
ing the wishes OF either the Cathedral or
the Second Congregation.
We altogether deny the allegation
that since the resignation of Mr.. Wax
lace, or at any time, had a process OF
undermining the Cathedral congrega-
ton been practiced. II the services
which you term Cathedral parochial
have suffered g depletion" 1t IS obvi-
ously because the services and ministra-
tons of the Second Congregation are
held to be, by the great majority OF
Anglican worshippers in Honolulu bo,h
resident and occasional, as more accept
able than any other available.
1t is more than probable that many
persons accustomed 10 the ministrations
of Mr.. Macintosh from their childhood
have followed him when he took charge
of the Second Congregation. Most Of
them he has baptized, has taught, has
solemnized the marriages amongst them,
and has inferred the remains OF those
who have departed from among them.
No new course of action whatever fol
lowed on the resignation OF Mr.. Wallace.
The matter of answering OF refusing 10
answer the set OF questions YOU circu-
lated does not belong here. No person
who read those questions can wonder a
the general refusal 10 reply to them.
We entirely repudiate the assumption,
novel IS 1t =. t..ss, the CatheGra, con-
gregatiOn i IN any sense the parOchiaI
congregation il ii be SO, lie. your school
and household be left out OF account,
and the remainder oil the said cOngrega-
ton ne taken as the representatives or
fruits u The eighteen years you refer to,
it must be acknowledged that there is
little to destroy, even su2pOsing, which
is not to be granted, that the second. or
more truly the parochial congregation,
had such an object IN view.
has come for vindicating the right OF the
parishioners OF st. andrews in their
parish church, and for maintaining the
dignity OF the church as Cathedral, by
an attempt to enforce unwelcOme and in
convenient hours for service upon that
which is unquestionably the lie facto
parochial congregations, is only another
instance of the strange blindness which
seems to affect Your LordshIp in ali
matters relating to the administration Of
the diocese, in the way OF cultivating the
goodwill OF the great proportion Of the
clergy and laity.
The doors OIL the Cathedral during the
services Of the Second Congregation are
open without distinction o: rank, or
language, or color, with this difference,
however, that the present incumbent OF
the care OF the Second Congregation is
the only priest in the diocese capable Of
efficiently ministering 10 Hawaiians In
their own language, and the only one
known to them, in Oahu, in domestic
ministration.
We propose to ask the opinion Of
counsel as to the right assumed by Your
Lordship to arbitrarily change the hours
OF worship, and shall, much as we regret
the scandal, be prepared TO carry the
question before the Courts OF the King
dom.
The friction which you refer to existed
long before MIR. Mackintosh's appoint
ment TO the Second Congregation, before
Mr. Wallace's arrival in the diocese, and
was in fact the occasion OF the existence,
as such, OF the so-called Second Congre-
CATION. (Signed)
7. X. WALKER,l W.r,ers
L. MAY. "@iUS1S-
VI. P. Robinson. H. W. Mist, E. W.
Jordan. ID. Berry, J. w. Podmore, Chas.
Crozier, Jno. F. Gillian, Sidesmen.