The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-06-23
MATTERS EPISCoPALIAN.
The Same Old Discussion Cropping Up
Again.

EDITOR STAR: Once more insult
is added to injury and the smoldering
embers Of tbs Episccpalian church scan
dial are again raked to the surface. From
time to time these have been put out,
raked over and supposed to have been
effectually quenched in the general dis
gust of all members of the Anglican
church of Hawaii. In spite of the ef-
forts of nearly all of the members of
the church to dllay this scandal, it
keeps coming to the surface when least
expected. Like Banquo's ghost 1t will
not down. Now some one IS to blame
for it, and one need not go very far to
discover the individual.
Alfred, "by Divine permission, lord
bishop of the Anglican Church in the
Hawaiian Islands" and by the grace of
the Almighty still in the land of the
living, has seen fit to promulgate
his personal and political views in re-
gard to the church over which he i'm
AGNES he has some powerful influence;
1t might even be said that he acts as if
it belonged to him, as he has notified
the members of the church in Homo
lulu that on and after a certain date
they will no longer be permitted to
worship according to the faith in which
they have been brought up, and in
whose tenets they are supposed TO have
been instructed by "Alfred" himself
unless they do so at stated times and
places comfortable to his own ideas.
In the name of common sense, if not
of the decency and respect due to re
ligious observances in this enlightened
age, why cannot respectable, decent
and law-abidlng people be permitted to
worship the Almighty at any time
and place and under any ministra-
ton they see fit2 Are the members
of the Second Congregation children
or slaves, that they must worship at the
beck and call of one who, in his gen
eral attributes and leaning towards the
church in past years and at the present
time, has presented himself in a light
exactly opposite to what the members
of the church are entitled to expect
from one holding his exalted position
in it.
But enough of this. Being of a
somewhat inquiring but bashful dis
position | went to the Cathedral last
Wednesday evening to attend the reg
ular service held supposedly for the
bishops congregation. The general all
of lOnesomeness pervadlng the atmos
phere caused me to pause at the door
and look in. | saw one solitary indi.
vidual sitting on the right-hand side Of
the Cathedral whom ! recognized when
he rose from prayer to be the bishop
himself. On the left were some ifteer
poor tired-out Iolani school boys, the
youngest | should Judge to be not much
over seven years OF age, the Oldest Ger
tainly not over fourteen or fifteen. lr
the choir there was also about tifteer
other children, boys, of course, anC
from the same school, also with a gen
eral air of WEAKNESS about them. Out
side the organist, Rev. Mr.. Kitcat, tn,
officiating clergyman, those in charg,
of the boys and the bishop himself no
a solitary soul was in the building dur
ing the service, which lasted abou
three quarters of an hour Supposin
that the service was over | was abou
to leave the sacred precincts when tn
sound of the organ recalled me, and