The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-03-11
FRANK and OPEN LETTERS SHE WANTS THEM ALL OUT.
ST. CLEMENTS CHAPEL CREATES
TROUBLE.
Bishop Willis and Rev. j. Osborne
Write-The Former Positively Re-
fused to Recognize the Mission.

Two letters concerning the Angli-
can church in hawaii have Just been
sent out to all the members of that So
cIety. The Bishop of Honolulu breaks
the silence by announcing that the
newly erected editice in Punahou,
built through the efforts of Rev. j.
Osborne, is not, and cannot be, under
present conditions, recognized by him
as having any connection with the An
glican church.
The Bishop adds that he has been
told that when the erection of the
Mission church was first mooted, the
Canon read a letter purporting to
have been written by him approving
the project, from the Cathedral pulpit.
The Bishop denies that he authorized
such proceeding.
The Bishop also states that if Canon
osborne was ignorant of the condi-
tons that must be complied with in
any undertaking of this nature, it
was his duty to have made himself
acquainted with them before proceed
ing further. The Bishop says that i'm
mediately upon his arrival in Honou-
In from England, he explained to Mr.
osborne that he could not accept the
Mission, and also furnished him with
a copy of the ecclesiastical law gov
erning the conservation of churches.
The Bishop insists that full opportu-
nifty was thus afforded for an effort to
be made to rectify the error which has
been made. meanwhile | have kept
silence" continued the Bishop, "thus
giving time for steps in that direction
to be taken. Nothing, however, has
been done, and in place of this, you
were compelled to listen, on Septua-
gesima Sunday, to an appeal for your
sympathy with a proceeding, which
has not yet been put on such a basis
that any member of the church can
consistently support it,"
Rev. j. osborne has replied to this
open letter of the Bishops. He nat
urally feels indignant. The Canon de-
MES that st. Clements has been con-
trary to existing laws of the church.
In defense of his utterances on Sep
tuagesima Sunday, Mr.. osborne says
that the increase of population in
Honolulu demands an increase of the
church accommodations. Mr.. Osborne
insists that the Bishop first mooted
the idea of new church.
Mr.. osborne then goes on in his let
ter, giving in full the correspondence
that passed between the Bishop and
himself relative to the new chapel.
In conclusion Mr.. osborne says:
MY appointment as Rector is to-
tally different thing to my appoint
ment as Nice-Dean. On my confront
ing the Bishop with the illegality of
the Cathedral organization, he, in self
defense, told me that if the organiza-
ton was Illegal, then | was not Rec
tor; that if he, as Bishop, had not the
power to make me Nice-Dean, he had
no power to make me Rector. | do
not like to think why he should tell
me this; however, it is not correct.
The appointment as Rector did not
hinge in any way on the appointment
of Nice-Dean.
81 am not moved in any way by per-
sonal motives, | disclaim any desire
to injure or hurt the interests of any
one. / simply want to see law, order,
harmony and more church life in this
parish, established on a solid founda-
ton, and | ask you all ts join me
heart and soul in an attempt to res
cue our church from a very perilous
position. | wish to say that | shall
not write again on this matter, on any
terms. If his Lordship thinks fit to
reply, his letter can receive no answer
from me, whatever it may be. | am
man of peace when allowed to be So
only ask to be permitted to do the
work intrusted to me in IA peaceful
and lawful manner, to the further
ance of the churcl's welfare, the spir-
itual good of my people and for the
glory of God"