The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-09-08
Ri. Rev. Alfred Willis, the Bishop
Of Honolulu.
PUTS FORTH A DOCUMENT
In an Off-Hand Way Points the Path.
Extracts From His Latest.
Still a Big 'Un.
present HINDRANCES.

present HINDRANCES.
If there is any action taken by the
General Convention, it will be in the
direction of supporting and strength
ening the work of the past, not of sup
planting it, not of replacing one organ
ization by another, but of removing the
present hindrances to growth, and of
giving to the church in the Islands.
through union with itself, the
strength and stability to put forth
more vigorous shoots"
DIFFICULTY A LA DIPLOMAT.
You may naturally ask whether /
intend to take any action. My reply to
this is that in the present case, there
is financial question which has first
to be settled. 1t does not appear to
me that any action in the direction of
such union should or can be taken
here until an agreement has been ar
rived at between the Archbishop of |
Canterbury and the Society of the |
Propagation of the Gospel en- the one |
side, and the General Convention and |
Board Of Missions of America on the |
other for the transfer of the main |
tenance of the See from one side of |
the Atlantic to the other"
STILL INDEPENDENT.
"On one other point a word may be |
said. Should the change of flag be |
followed by the adoption Of the Prayer
book of the American Church in place
of the Prayer book of the Church of
England? Not until the Diocese is
received into the organization of the
Church in America. Until then our
relation to the See of Canterbury is
unaffected by the political change !
With the exception of the change in
the State Prayers about which notice
has already been given the services
will continue to be conducted in all
our churches according to the use of
-he Church of England
A CONCESSION.
But should American churchmen
II Honolulu, HilO or elsewhere, be de-
sirOus of at once erecting a church in
which the American Prayer-bOOk may
De used, to be served by an American
clergyman for whom an adequate sup s
)Ort is guaranteed, | may state that
{ is quite within the authority of the t
Bishop to grant permission for its use. Y
he conditions required for the cree J
ion Of churches being duly observed. t
+ any American churchmen desires to @
roceed in the matter and will confer +
18th me on the subject [ shall be most f
Apply to facilitate their wishes TO the
tmost Of my power"
AN OLD DEBT. b
|
lteTed upon with a due regard for the
ebt that the American Church owes =
} the Mother Church of England For .
is entirely due to the action of the .
hurch Of England for period now =
crying on forty years, that the Amer =
an Church find in this new possession "
the United States a church in full
JmmuniOn with itself, that embraces l.
! its membership people Of three ma T.
Qualities in whose languages the d
ervices are conducted and the Sacra- IL
tents administered. It viii be care II
lily borne in mind that the Church Z
England sent q Mission to these .
stands on the application Of Bishops
the United States. in consequence
the inability Of their own church
) undertake the responsibility"
A PROBABILITY. -
There being no union between I
hurch and State, either in the United ]
Jates or in the Hawaiian Islands the /
,tiOn Of the Government at Washing
IN assuming the Sovereignty Of these
stands does not, by itself, touch the
-atus Of the Anglican Church in Ha-
ali. II only brings into view the
reliability that the Anglican Church
] Hawaii will, in the near future, be
rOught into closer relationship to the 1
hUrch in the United States. Until
le General Convention expresses its
esire for this to be brought about,
ne present relation of this bishOpric
, the See Of Canterbury remains un-
hanged. Up to the present have re
lived no direct communication from
le Church authorities in the United
lates on the subject"