Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-09-07
BISHOP WILLIS SPEAKS.
Continued from First Page.

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opinion that measures should be
taken for fulfilling the desire thus
put, we trust, by God into the
heart of His Majesty.
"That having respect to the i'm
portarce of these Islands as a
probable centre or Christian in.
fluence in the North Pacific Archi
pelago, as we'll as the immediate
needs of the actual population of
the Hawaiian gioup, an earnest
appeal for support be made to the
Church at home.
"That as it appears by letters
from the Bishops of California
and New York that there is
readiness on behalf of the Amer
lean Church to unite in this effort,
the Committee hail with gratitude
to God such an opening for com.
mon missionary action between
two great branches of the Reform
ed Catholic Church.
"That the Bishops of California
and New York be requested to
convey to the Church in America
most earnest invitations from this
Com mittee to unite in this work"
3. The See of Honolulu has
now a history of thirty six years.
In that history lies the assurance
that, whatever changes may now
ensue, nothing will be done to
break the continuity of the history
of the Anglican Church in Ha
wall. Ii there is one thing IN
likely to happen, il is that the
Hawaiian Islands will cease to
form a seperate jurisdiction, and
will be merged in the Diocese Of
California. So far from this be-
ing likely, all may rest assured
that if ally action is taken by the
General Convention, 1t will be in
the direction of supporting and
strengthening the work of the
past, not of supplanting
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 vigor-
Gus shoots.
1. Another point to which
would call attention, is that, when
ever the Church in the United
States resolves to relieve the
Church of England Of it's respon-
sIbility with regard to these Isl
ands, the lines are already laid
down with the common consent of
the Bishops of the Anglican Com.
munion by which this Diocese
may become part of the organiza
ton of the Church in the United |
States. The steps by which Mis-
sionary Bishopric should be unit
ed to a Provincial organization |
were carefully considered at the
Lambeth Conference of 1887, and |
form the subject of Resolution XII.
The most important clauses are
there:
VIII. That the conditions on
which a Missionary Bishopric
should be brought within Pro
vincial organ zation should be:
81. The request of the Mission
airy Bishop, addressed both to the
Church from which he received |
mission and to the Province which |
he wishes to join.
"2. The consent of the Church
from which he received mission,
that consent being given by the
Metropolitan or Presiding Bishop.
"3. The consent of the Province
he wishes to join, that consent be-
ing given by the Provincial Sy-
nod.
SIX. That the status, jurisdic
ton and designation of the Bishop
thus received into a system of
Provincial organization should be
determined by the Synod of the
Province to which his See shall
be then attached"
5. You may naturally ask wheth
er l intend to take any action
under the above Resolution. My
reply to this is that in the
present case, there is a fnan.
cial question which has first
to be settled. 1t does not appear
to me that any action in the direc
ton of such union should or can
be taken here until an agreement
has b zen arrived at between the
Archbishop of Canterbury and the