The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1893-06-20
THE BISHOP PRoDs.

ANDREWS Cathedral.
Honolulu, June 10, 1898.
FRIENDS: The following communi-
cation addressed by the Right Rev.
erend the Bishop of Honolulu to the
church wardens of your coDgrega-
ton, is hereby submitted for your
information aud consideration by
Your obedient servants,
II. W. MIST,
MARK p. ROBINSON,
Wardens.
COPY.
Alfred, by divine permission, Bishop
of Honolulu, to Captain H. w.
Mist, r. N, and Mark p. Robin
SOD, ESQ, wardens of the Second
English speaking Congregation
of st. Andrews Cathedral,
greeting:
Whereas, by license dated the
4th day of December, 1885, permits
sion was granted to the Hon. A. s.
Cleghorn, T. May, Esq, and others,
to become a separate congregation,
having authority to elect their own
minister, and to hold their services
under the direction of such minister
in st. Andrews Cathedral, the said
license being issued subject to condi-
tions mutually agreed to between the
bishop and the signers of the mem
orial asking to become such separate
congregation, which conditions are
set forth in a schedule thereto an
nexed, and subject to which the min
lister of such separate congregation is
licensed.
And whereas, these conditions have
been repeatedly disregraded, as is
fully set forth in pamphlet entitled
"The Essential Need of Unity in the
Cathedral Church;"
l. By the frequent introduction of
temporary decorations into the cathe-
dral, without leave being first obtain
ed from the cathedral authorities, as
agreed to in Section s
q By holding the regular services
of the church in the cathedral at
hours other than those stated for the
morning and evening service of the
church on Sundays and other days of
observance, without permission being
first asked, the liberty to use the
cathedral church at other times than
these specified, being restricted to
the occasional services" i. e., bap-
tisms, marriages, churchings aud
funerals, as distinguished from morn
ing and evening prayer, litauy and
holy communion.
3. By the advancement of tie
claim of the Second Congregation to
be the "Parishioners" Of the Cathe-
dral, and of the Minister to be "the
Pastor of the Parish" in direct CON
of the position asked for
and granted to the Second CoDgrega-
ton as Distinct Society" aud of
the license of the Minister, which
conveys no parochial jurisdiction, the
said claim having been openly .
asserted III an Almanack issued by :
the Minister of the Second Congre
cation in January last, entitled "St.
Andrews Cathedral, Honolulu, AL
containing a letter from the
Minister aforesaid, dated from the
Cathedral las if he held position in
lhe Cathedral which was offered to 7
him in 1891, and was declined) and I
addressed to "Parishioners," being,
sent to others than mem
1ers of his own congregation, i
hus encroaching on the charge and +
lights of the Clergyman holding my !
license as Cathedral Chaplain; the l
,laim thus asserted receiving the d
upport of the members of the con- +
who style themselves
Pensioners of Honolulu in the v
adopted at their meeting a
N April Goth 1893.
And Whereas, In November, 1891,
proposition was made by the X
Bishop, whereby without disruption C
he Second Congregation might "
oalesce and become one body with "
be Cathedral organization, from s.
1hich it has been distinct and sepa- "
ate, and its members again become =,
of st. Andrew, Cathe. "
raj, which proposition was not e.
ntertained, and second invitation e.
nth the same object in view issued al
n April last has also been declined: y,
Now Therefore, By virtue of the L
-uthority ordinary and Episcopal, b
nder which the license to the |,
econd Congregation was issued, n
We, the Bishop aforesaid, do by IL
lese presents declare that for failure | m
} observe the conditions on which =
le said license was granted as above l.
1T forth, the said license issued oil
4 December 4th, 1885, will terminate m
nd expire three months from the \
ate hereof, viz, on the second day u'
September, 1893. OF
In Witness, Whereof, We have RI
sreuntO set our hand this second -
ay of June, in the year of our Lord "
ne Thousand Eight Hundred and til
inety-three, and of our Conservation m
ie Twenty second.
(Signed) ALFRED. III