The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-10-25
BISHOP WILLIS THREAT
TO REVOKE REV. MACINTOSH'S
LICENSE.
win Accept No Testimony Contrary
to His Own Niews-Second Congre-
CATION Sustains It's Minister

81 have no alternative but to revoke
your license which | shall do on my
return from Lahaina."
Such in substance are the words of
Bishop Willis to Rev. Alexander Mack
intosh in communication sent just
before the bishop sailed for Maui. his
last words i'm Il correspondence which
has extended over three months
The threat, if carried out, will prob
ably he the most important in its CON
sequences to the Anglican church in
Honolulu. of anything that has hap
pened since its establishment here.
So portentous was the tone of the
bishop in opening up the correspond
ence that Rev. Macintosh submitted
his communication to his vestry and
has been guided by its judgment
throughout the correspondence.
The correspondence opened with
letter from the bishop stating that
the Cathedral register showed the
record of Il baptism solemnized by
Rev. Macintosh under circumstances
which seemed to testify an open dis
regard of the rules of the church in
regard to such matters. At the same
time the bishop quoted these rules and
called for an explanation. I'm reply to
this Rev. Macintosh explained the
circumstances of the baptism and that
they conformed to the church's re-
qurements as he understood them,
and to the bishops desires as he had
been led by the bishop to conceive
them.
The bishops answer to this was a
denial of the sufficiency of the eXpla-
nation and a new charge that he had
admitted to baptism a Chinese with
out proper instruction and married
him to a Hawaiian girl, though he al
ready had a wife in China.
Rev. Mackintosh's reply to this is
that the Chinese was fully examined
before baptism. gave every evidence of
preparation and the baptism was per-
formed as the church directs. AS to
the bishops allegation of his previous
marriage. his own statements and the
! government records show that he
came to this country when he was 10,
/ and has resided here ever since. The
/ bishops detective claims that he went
/ back TO China ana was married there.
| but the government police force and
| immigration Office have not been able
| to find any evidence of this.
The bishop brushes all explanations
and testimony aside, urges that
the missionary work Of the church
will be paralyzed and the church be
brought into reproach among the
heather. if the heather are' admitted
into the fold of the church without re-
| pentance of faith. and announces his
determination to revoke Rev. Macllin
tosh's license.
The vestry OF the Second Congrega
ton will probably advise an appeal tC
the Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel, under whose auspices the worl
of the church here is carried on. anC
will refer the bishop to the rules o
that society for the protection of thu
clergy against the bishops reading
into the rubric for some purpose o
his own, a severity which the churcl
has not put there.
Rev Macintosh has asked the bish
op to defer the trial until he can sc
cure all his witnesses. 1t is neither
his intention nor that of his vestry
ard congreg cation to submit withou'
effort to what the vestry consider I'M
warranted action and tyranny.