The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-07
OF MISSIONS

scholars no study is so interesting as
those wonderful structures, whose
years are reckoned by many centuries,
each one of which has a history and
individuality of its own, which will re-
pay investigation.
"a cathedral is not only a large and
beautiful church. Such it usually is,
but that alone does not make it a
cathedral Neither is it the fact that
il is the most important church in All
important town. A cathedral church
is a church, old or new, which holds
a bishops chair, his cathedra, and is
thus the center of a bishops diocese.
With the setting up of this chair the
title comes; with it's removal the title
goes: there is no other cause or defini-
ton of it.-Van Rensselaer,.
I'm all England there are about
twenty Of these diocesan churches, and
though there may be few others
which are INTELLECTUALLY the peers of
the cathedrals (notably Westminster
Abbey, which in some respects is the
finest churcf: in all England, but it il
not cathedraD, in general they are
the noblest structures which man has
reared to the worship of God.
They nearly all originated in ante
protestant times, when religion was
indeed a warfare. That the church
should love to raise it's lofty spires
under the military protection of the
castle was natural. Most of the
cathedrals were also connected with
some kind of monastic order. Indeed
they were the embodiment of prayer
and praise.
Though for centuries now all these
cathedrals have >been under protestant
control, in all the most ancient we see
outside of, but connected with the
church proper, the long shaded clois-
tiers where brothers walked, prayer
book in hand; the chapter house where
they gathered on secular business, the
refectory where their frugal meals
We're taken, and the crypt under the
church where at last, one by one, they
were gathered.
Emerson says of this feature of
their work: The gothic cathedrals
were built when the builder and the
priest and the people were overpower-
ed by their faith. Love and fear laid
every stone
"As they are at present organized
each of these cathedrals has a Lord
Bishop, whose duty it Is to look afte,
the spiritual interests of the people
of the diocese in which the cathedral
is located: a dean, the chief officer OF
the cathedral building, various other
officers forming the cathedral chapter
or governing body, a verger who, will
various assistants, acts as caretaker
boy choir of twenty or thirty lads from
ten to sixteen years old; thus main
tanning a dignity which is most i'm
posing"
The report from the KawaiahaC
Church was then read, followed by the
japanese report, after which came the
minutes of the previous meeting. Mrs
Gilman was introduced to the ladies
of the Board of Missions by Mrs. Hyde
in few terse we'll chosen words.
The subject of rescue work was mex
taken up, and a motion to make ar
appropriation of 500 toward it was pu
| to vote and carried. The house I,
carry on rescue work will probably
cost $40 month, and the running eX
penses were placed at about $40. TIL,
chairman asked that donations of fur
Initure be given to save expense a piec,
here or there of personal effects, which
| might not be missed from any one:
home. A letter from Miss Green wa.
read. 1t was put to motion whether
her sister. Miss Mary Green, SHOULD
! not serve as substitute until her sisteI
could reach here in the spring 1t wa.
also decided that the Bible worl
| should remain unchanged until the ad
vent of Miss Green. A meeting of tn,
| Young Women's Christian Association
at the house of Mrs. Whitney at 7:3
| o'clock on November 10Th, was mex
announced. Then a collection for for
eign missions was taken up, followe,
| by few kindly words regarding thu
health of Mrs. Bingham
After it's customary prayer and son.
the meeting adjourned