The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-10-27

hands into a diDlomatist: and under the
soft. velvety glove of meilifiuous religious
| rites is the hard. clammy hand of Britain
feeling for a naval station in the center
of the great tranquil sea" So wrote the
New York Round Table. The Boston
/ Daily Advertiser had the following: I'VE
do not lasiHwafe-we charge that this
mission is a part of long standing in
mount in a grouD of islands which. DO
! Iitically. are the key which viii here
after control the Pacific
| The death of Kamehameha " on the
second ST. Andrews Day after the ar
rival of the mission--that is. within four
| teen months-deprived the Anglican
Church of one whose support the churcn
| had hoped to receive for many years to
come. His brother. who succeeded TO the
throne as Kamehameha V. had not the
same firm grasn of the Christian faith.
and although he contributed literally for
the support of the church. did not exer-
else the same personal influence on its
behalf. A letter addressed by his Males
ty to the House of Bishops assembled in
general convention at Philadelphia in
1860 and presented by Bishop Staley.
bore testimony TO the great practical good
that had arisen to his people from the
Anglican mission. Still. the place of the
fourth kamehameha as a nursing father
OF the church. was never again supplied.
There has been no greater drawback
TO missions of the Anglican church than
the necessity so often thrown upon the
Bishops of leaving their diocese in order
to raise funds for carrying on their work.
At the end of five years Bishop Staley
found it necessary to return to England
for this purpose. The constant vitupera-
ton of the press had done its work in
alternating sympathy in the United
States. and aid at first given for support
OF an American clergyman no longer
granted. In England the enthusiasm
with which the mission had been launch
ed. and which was for a short time re-
kindled by the visit of Queen Emma after
her husbands DEATH had waned the
Bishop found it difficult to raise the
needed funds. The task ought never to
have been thrown upon him. He wrote
at this time his Five Years Work in
Hawaii" published by Rivingstons. 1868.
and on his wav out held combinations at
the ports of South America. Shortly
after his return to the diocese he rendered
his resignation TO the Archbishop of Cam
terbury and retired from the diocese in
June, 1870
1t was strongly urged by Bishop Steley
that the position he had resigned would
be better filled by an American than by
an Englihman. In Lights and Shadows
of a Long Episcopate." Bishop Whinnle
has told the story at length of the earn
est invitation he received from Bishop
Wilberforce TO occupy the vacant see:
now he sought the advice of his brethren
in the Episcopate and finally declined it.
1t thus became necessary to seek again
in England for a successor TO Bishop
Staley. and on February 2 1872. the
Rev. Alfred Willis was consecrated in
Lambeth Chapel the second Bishop of
Honolulu. And here it should be stated
that the appointment was made absolute
and unconditional. This is stated be-
-ause it might be inferred from recent
particularly in a letter
from the Bishop of New York TO the
Secretary of the s. p. G.. that the APP
pointment was made subject to political
contingencies. When our Saviour issued
His last command to His Apostles to 90
into all the world. the command was not
limited nor conditioned by regard 70 20
of missions the writer is not aware of
single case in which missionary Bishops
have been sent out subject to political
Ii cannot be said that the new Bishop
received an enthusiastic welcome in Ho-
nolulu except by the native members of
the church Those who chung to the idea
OF being -foreign' congregation were
quite satisfied to be an "episcopalian'
without an '-episcopos.- And. unfor-
tunately. this idea had been crystalized
by the last act of the previous Bishop in
the existence OF "a foreign
in the Pro- Cathedral. as a
separate entity with rights in the Ca
thedral at certain hours.
The cut stone for the Chancel of the
Cathedral to be Memorial to Kane
TN IL . -
Cathedral site. Foundations for the
Chancel had been put in and the founda-
ton stone had been laid on March G.
1861. BY kamehameha v but since then
no progress had been made There were
three clergy in Honolulu. two priests and
one deacon. On the other Islands the
only clergyman was the Rev. George
Whipple. brother Of the Bishop of Min
nesofa. acting rs private chaplain to a
planter in Maui. and holding services
fortnightiy at Waialuku. where he had
leen formerly located. The nevonport
Sisters were faithfully carving on their
work in st. Andrews Priory. and ST
Cross. Iahaina- But ar the latter Mace
they had for many months been without
the ministrations of priest Outside Of
Honolulu two churches had been built.
one at Wailuku. on Maui: the other at
kena en- Hawaii But in neither case
had the land been made church property
hv heing vested Ia the SYNOD II would
take long 10 tell the story of the en-
rumbranee ON the church site at Kona-
Al the land that the Synod Of the Re
formed Catholic Church keid In fee sim
NE was the Cathedral site in Honolulu
and eemeterv at I4ahaina.
One of the first acts OF Bishop Willis
vas to induce the Synod to consent TO =
Shange in the title OF the church. II APP
scared to him sinEuiariv unfortunate that
the church In Hawaii shogld not be