The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-07-20
NO FURTHER
HELP HERE
Anglican Donation is
Cut Off.
ENGLAND REFUSES FUNDS
Bishop Willis Writes a Warm Let
ter to Missionary Society
Abroad.


English Society for the Propagation of
the Gospel has withdrawn Its support
of the Anglican Church here. The An
gllcan Bishop has lengthy article on
the matter in the magazine. in which
he states his hope that he will be able
to weather the stand until the local
Church Is united with the Episcopal
Church of the United States The ar
ticle Is In the form of letter addressed
to the secretary of the society in Eng
land. and begins as follows:
Your letter of May 4th Is before me.
1t informs me that after June 30th. of
the present year, this diocese, created
by the Church of England as the ad-
vanced post of the Anglican communion
in the Pacific ocean, knitting together
East and West, viii cease to receive
any ala from the Society for the Propa-
cation of the Gospel The meaning of
this is that the Bishop who has been at
his post for twenty-eight years is not
only to pe deprived of the amount
voted for his own maintenance, but is
to lose also grant of e400 a year, on
which he has depended to make up the
stipends of Engnsh and Chinese clergy,
most of whom he has ordained, and
who have therefore a claim on him for
their support. Thus, not through war,
famine or other calamity, but by the
deliberate vote of the standing COM
mittee of the S. =. u, which for two
centuries has been me War Office of
the Church of England for spreading
and maintaining Christ's Kingdom in
the world, the garrison of one of the
most distant outpostS Is refused all
further supplies. The opening of the
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marked by the LIocese of Honolulu be-
ing abandoned as a Deleaguered city.
'Neither in the letter of the Bishop
of New York, to which you refer, nor in
any communication that has reached
me during the last two years, has a
word been written containing or even
implying an assurance that the Church
in the U. S. A. is prepared to assume at
presApt any of the financial RESPONSE
bility towards the diocese hitherto
borne by the Society. All that Is offer
ed until October, 1901, is Episcopal over
sight.
'.The ground on which the Society,
after reconsdering the question. has
finally determined to abandon the
Diocese OF Honolulu rests on the follow
ing communication, received by you
from the Bishop of New York. in reply
to an inquiry made by yourself:
1T is entirely competent to the
SHuTCn TO ltfke over the
charge OF church work in Honolulu at
any moment We cannot indeed elect
Bishop of Honolulu until the meeting
of our General synod but our canons
provide a mode by which the presiding
Bishop may assign To any neighboring
Bishop the care of any territory which
needs Episcopal supervision
The Anglican Bishop discusses the
status of the Church here and says that
no Bishop of the United States can be
assigned here until in pursuance of an
enabling act of the Diocesan Synod of
the Anglican Church in Hawaii the
estate of the corporation Is made by
appropriate words of transfer subject
to or conformable with the constitution
and canons of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in the United States
The Bishop says: las to the extent
and value OF this estate: When l came
out in 1872 the property owned by the
Anglican Church. then styled the Re
formed Catholic Church. did not COM
prise more than two acres In fee sim
pie, the value of which, with buildings,
did not exceed $4,000. At the present
date the Anglican Church in Hawaii
owns thirteen acres in seventeen diff |
ferent lots on the Islands of oahu, |
Maui and Hawaii the total value of
which, with the church, parsonage and
schoolroom thereon, Is over 100000 |
erty on which Boys Boarding School
has been conducted since 1872. lI.is not
being owned by the corporation.
THE readiness of the Bishop and Syn
cd OF the Anglican Church in Hawaii
to take the necessary steps for bring |
ing the diocese under the constitution
and canons of the Church i'm the United !
States cannot be more plainly stated
All that is asked In return by those Of
fering to hand over their valuable prop
erty to the Church in the United States
is that the Church will respect the in
tegrity of the Church in Hawaii on re-
ceiving II into union with itself. re-
quest which admits of no other inter-
probation than that the See of Homo |
lulu be preserved unimpaired."
The Bishop goes on addressing the |
Secretary of the Propagation Society:
''Is this the reward that the Church |
of England gives through the instru-
mentality of the Society, to those who
go at her call to plant the Church be- |
yond the limits of the British Empire?
How do you reconcile il with the prom
Use that you made me in 1893, when the |
tidings reached you of the overthrow
OF the monarchy, and the first attempt
TO obtain annexation to the United |
States before President Harrison's ad-
ministration expired? You then wrote
me as follows:
My Dear Bishop:-If you are an
nexed TO the United States you may re-
ly on the Society doing its best to tide
you over the change. Yours very sim
cerely, HENRY w, TUCKER
Notwithstanding the straits In which
the action of the Society places me. my
duty is clear. 1t is to remain at the
post TO which / was called by the AS
cended Head OF the Church. who for
twenty-eight years has accepted my
ministry with all its imperfeetions and
shortcomings. l cannot believe that IL
10 his will that the foundations that
have been laid should be torn up, and
the stones OF his temple thrown down.
but We're | now TO abandon my post
as infer ! am expected TO do much ~
the work OF the last twenty-eight years
would be broken up before October,
1901. There is every reason TO fear that
our Chinese congregations. an import
ant. increasing and earnest element In
the Anglican Church. unable to main