The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-25

dated TINS 4tn DAY OF Marcn, 1871.
EDMUND STILES,
Registrar.
THE CHURCH DEFENCE AND
EXTENSION ASSOCIATION
OF HAWAII
To all to whom these presents may
come. Greeting: Be ii known to you
by these presents, that whereas there
was published in The Churchman,
volume SO. No. ). dated February 3,
1901. a letter on The Church in Ha-
wall" signed, George S. Harris,
president, for the Church Defence and
Extension Association of Hawaii, Ho-
nolulu II. L., January 2, 1901 intend
ed to make it appear and be believed
in the United States that the Rt. Rev.
A c. A Hall, ID. Bishop of Yer
mont had been misinformed and was
generally in error in the statements
concerning the Anglican Church in
Hawaii published over his signature
in a previous issue Chat of December
y of the same journal:
The position and standing of the
said Association is as follows:
l. The said Church Defence and
Extension Association has no recogni-
ton from the Bishop, Synod, or any
of the Parochial Clergy of the Do
cese of Honolulu.
9 The said Church Defence and
Extension Association was Incorporate
ed on March 10. 1899 through the in
strumentality of one John osborne,
Clerk, late of Toronto. Canada, who
had previously, in 1897, separated him
self from the Anglican Church in
Hawaii, in which he had been given
a position of dignity and trust, and
became the founder of schism
holding property under the name and
style of THE Episcopal Church at
Large; and it was for the Defence
and Extension of this schismatical
body, and not of the Church, that
the so-called Church Defence and Ex-
tension Association was brought into
existence.
g. Whilst any one reading the pre-
amble of the Charter of 1ncorpora-
ton Of the said Association would be
led to believe that 1t was promoted
by American Churchmen, ii being
stated. that sit is deemed by the
members of the Protestant Episcopal
Church of the Hawaiian Islands to
be expedient that such an as
ISOLATION should be formed" % six
out of seven of the charter members
are British, one only being an Amer
lean: and (2) there is no such body in
existence as 1.-The Protestant EpiSco-
pal Church of the Hawaiian Islands"
L. Persons unbaptiZed and persons
who do not hold the faith of the
church are eligible for membership in
the association. provided they are
"adherents or attendants Of the
church. and accept and agree with
the object of the association"
To which four characteristics of the
society, calling itself the Church De-
fence and Extension Association of
Hawaii" nothing more need be added
to enable you to determine the value
TO attach to the communication pub
lished in The Churchman of Febru-
airy 2, 1901.
In witness whereof we have here
unto set our hands this fourth day of
March, in the year of our Lord, 1901.
ALBERT WILLIS,
Bishop of Honolulu
VINCENT H. KITCAT,
Vice Dean and Clerical Secretary of
the Diocesan Synod.
EDMUND STILES, Registrar.
Here was a trick worthy of the sharp
est barrister of the Inner Temple. MI
osborne and his fellow trustees ha
not the remotest idea of founding
new sect or leading any scotsman
His Lordship must have known it. Blu
by naming the Episcopal Church a
Large as sort of proxy for what
ever the St. Clements people began t
get a hearing abroad he Embossed hi
Episcopal bull and directed it's fiery ey
the group of communicate
whom he was pleased to call "a neN
sect"
Rev. Mr.. Usborne's side of the stor
appears in the following interview:
WHAT MIR. OSBORNE SAYS.
81 don't know on what grounds h
charges me with having left tn
church. Unless he is crazy he mus
know he has no grounds" said Rev
John osborne yesterday. Il have con
Quoted services in st. Clements chape
for three years. Everything has bee
done strictly according to prayer boo
and in a perfectly lawful way as pre-
scribed by the church. There has bee
whatever irregular in the ser
vices. deny the Bishops charges i
toto. l deny starting a new sect S
Clements is loyal to the church and al
so to the lawful Episcopal authority O
the Bishop. We are loyal to the con
of the church and to it's can
ons; and the Bishop has been offfciall
notified of that fact by the rector with
in the last year.
The Bishop is jealous over every
body who works in the church." con
tinued Mr.. osborne. HE wants to
it all himself. Just as soon as anyon
begins to do good work or becomes i
any way popular. the Bishop gets eros
about it and then fights.
when the st. Clements property wa
bought the Bishop was in England
was expected at the tim
and it was thought by the donors
be the part of wisdom to hold the deed
in trust. not for the Anglican Churc
Of Hawaii. which was the church the
of the Islands, but in the name of tn