The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-19
NO FURTHER
HELP HERE
Anglican Donation is
Cut Off.
ENGLAND REFUSES FUNDS
Bishop Willis Writes 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the Gospel has withdrawn its support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
glican Bishop has a lengthy article on
the matter in the magazine, in which
ne 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.
IL informs me that after June Both, of
the present year. this diocese, created
by the Church of England as the adj
vanced post of the Anglican communion
in the Pacific ocean, knitting together
East and West, will 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- be deprived of the amount
voted for his own maintenance, but is
To lose also "A 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 ;. Il. e., 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
bicentenary year of the s. r. G.. is TO be
sstfrs 49, -
ing abandoned as a Deleaguered city.
Neither i'm 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. $. a. is prepared to assume at
/ present any of the financial RESPONSE
l 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 reconsidering 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
| American Church to take over the
charge of church work in Honolulu al
any moment. We cannot indeed elect
a Bishop Of Honolulu until the meeting
4 of our General Synod, but our canons
provide mode by which the presiding
Bishop may assign to any neighborinl
Bishop the care of any territory which
needs Episcopal supervision "
The Anglican Bishop discusses the
status of the Church here and says tina
no Bishop of the United States can b.
assigned here until in pursuance of al
J enabling act of the Diocesan Synod o
the Anglican Church in Hawaii, tn
estate OF the corporation Is made b.
! appropriate words of transfer subjec
! TO or conformable with the constitution
and canons of the Protestant Episcopa
! Church in the United States.
The Bishop says: AS to- the eXten
and value of this estate: When / cam
out I'm 1872 the property owned by tn
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 building!
4 did not exceed $4,000. At the presen
date the Anglican Church in Hawa
\ owns thirteen acres in seventeen dill
. ferent lots on the Islands of Oahl
D Maui and Hawaii. the total value {
J which. with the church, parsonage an
schoolroom thereon, is over 5000
]
y erty on which Boys Boarding Scho
has been conducted since 1872. this m
y being owned by the corporation.
THE readiness of the Bishop and Syi
= cd of the Anglican Church i'm Hawa
to take the necessary steps for brinl
= ing the diocese under the constitute
and canons of the Church i'm the Unite
= states cannot be more plainly state
~ All that Is asked in return by those o
N fering 20 hand over their valuable pro
y erty to the Church in the United Stat
Is that the Church will respect the 4
tegrity of the Church in Hawaii on r
~ ceiving II into union with itself. a T
quest which admits of no other int
probation than that the See of Hon
v lulu be preserved unimpaired."
The Bishop goes on addressing [
Secretary OF the Propagation Society;
"Is this the reward that the Chur
y Of England gives. through the instr
mentality Of the Society, to those W
4 go at her call To plant the Church /
= yOnd the limits of the British Empir
q How do you reconcile IL with the pro-
= Use that you made me in 1893, when
q tidings reached you Of the overthr'
OF the monarchy, and the first atten
q TO obtain annexation TO the Unit
States before President Harrison's q
q ministration expired? You then wr'
me as follows:
- q
nexed 10 the United States you may
q ly on the Society doing its best to I
- you over the change. Yours very S
q cereiy. HENRY w. TUCKE
Notwithstanding the straits In VIII
the action Of the Society places me,
q duty Is clear. IL Is TO remain at
post TO which / was called by the .
= cended Head of the Church, who
twenty-eight years has accepted
y ministry with all It's imperfections ;
shortcomings. ! cannot believe tina
r Is his will that the foundations Z
have been laid should be torn up.
p the stones OF his temple thrown do
But were I now TO abandon my p
p as infer / am expected to do, much
~ the work Of the last twenty-eight We
p would be broken up before Octol
~ 1901. There is every reason to fear [
our Chinese congregations, an imp'
y ant. increasing and earnest element
the Anglican Church. unable to m;
Y tain their clergy and teachers. would
scattered.
y Consequently. though perplexed
- the unprecedented, and, as IL seem
me. uncalled for action of the Soci
am not In despair, but trust that
my will be forthcoming to enable me
nth. continue at the post to which