The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-20
o be carried on without curtailment

In July last 1 did not know whittier i
should turn for payment of the next
| quarters salaries. made an appeal to
the Chinese merchants, which met with
a most liberal response, many express
| ing regret that in consequence of their
heavy losses by the plague fire their sub
scription was not larger. In a very few
days between $500 and $500 were raised.
! OF the subscribers very few were Chris
tians, but they subscribed through APP
probation of the church's work.
| / will only add that not long before
| the Churchman printed this tissue of
| falsehoods about the church in Hawaii
| from what is nothing better than boz
gus association, it had refused to pub
| lish the letter of an American priest
who is personally acquainted with the
condition here.
Trusting that truth will obtain hear
| ing in your columns, 1 am, yours faith
fully, ALFRED WILLIS,
| Bishop of Honolulu.
Honolulu, March 26, 1901
The following is the answer of the
| retired mechanic" of this City to Bish-
OPP Willis communication:
To the Editor of the Living Church.
Sir: We regret reading in your issue
VI April ZulU, WHICH mas just reached US,
a letter from the Bishop of Honolulu in
which he speaks in disparaging terms of
this association, and also criticizes the
New York Churchman for having pub
lished a letter from this associate in
February last.
VIII you permit us to say that the
Bishop has quite mistaken our motives
in writing this letter. 1t was written
solely to correct some wrong impress
sions held by the Bishop of Vermont,
which had been published in that paper,
an explanation of which, bare justice
to our church required. We have re-read
that letter and cannot find in it one
statement made by US that is not strict
~ correct.
With regard to that particular clause
which alludes TO our missions being self
supporting, his lordship states that be-
tween the 1st of July and 31st of Decem-
Der, 1900, he paid out s407.6O for the Eng
disappearing clergy, and 1897 for the Chi
nese work. This would intimate that our
missions are not self-supporting.
What the Bishop says is, no doubt,
quite correct: but this 1897 was nearly,
if not altogether, contributed by the Chi
nese themselves who, although some are
heather. are having their children edu
Gated at our schools, while others attend
Tile SnlneSe 1nuTCn. SO lHaI lllS DlOnSN
cannot be regarded as mission help.
OF the $407 paid to the English-speak-
ing clergy, this was, no doubt American
money a part of the $3.50 which the
Bishop states in the Diocesan Magazine.
he had received from sympathizers in the
United States, after the withdrawal of
the S. p. G. grant, and it was very &C
ceptable at the time, and for the two
Chinese schools, such gifts would still
be as acceptable, they are required to
meet the expenses of these schools, but
the clergy are supported by the people.
Besides in our letter to tie .nurchman,
We did not refer to our financial condi-
ton in 1900. Between June and Decem-
Der of that year the financial outlook
was not bright, but we made the state
ment that in January, 1901, all our mis-
sons were on a self-supporting basis, as
they were, and are. By that time the
people had become alive to their respon-
sibilities and had risen to the occasion.
We regret that the Bishop should seek
to disparage this association and impugn
its veracity. We can only say that it is
duly Incorporated association and is
regarded in this City as an honorable
and useful organization whose integrity
and honesty of purpose is unquestioned,
except by his lordship. Our most respect
ed president has been church warden
and synodsman for many years, and has
always been a moving spirit and an au-
thority in church matters. ihe associa-
ton is certainly not recognized by the
Bishop, as We think it should be but Ii
is representative. Among our members
are enrolled many names of the best
churchmen in our City, including church
wardens, members of the synod and of
the board of trustees, and of each of
our congregations in the City, and it
has. We think, the sympathy of all
classes. 1t is nothing more nor less tnan
what its motto proclaims, Pro Dec ct
Ecclesia," up to which motto, in a mod
est way, we strive to live.