The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-27
FROM AND TO BISHOP WILLIS.

We have received the following cour-
teous letter from Bishop Willis and we
print 1t with an aloha to the sturdiest
fighter who ever wore a long black
coat:
Honolulu, March %. 1901.
Editor Advertiser: In your editorial
on the Anglican Church, in your issue of
yesterday, you assumed that prayers for
King Edward VII. are regularly offered
in St Andrews Cathedral, and you re-
gard the practice as affording sufficient
reason why American Episcopalians
should desire to attend an American
Episcopal church rather than st. An
drews. $50 @
quite agree with you that If such
were the practice in the Cathedral and
other churches of the Anglican Church
In the Islands, there would be ground
for dissatisfaction IN the minds VI
American Churchmen. Permit me.
therefore,, to state that no such prayers
are used. From the moment the Islands
became American soil the name Of the
Sovereign of Great Britain was omitted
from the, State, Prayers IN DIR public
worship, and the prayer for the Presi-
dent. taken from the American Book,
was ordered to be used :. In all our
churches. American Episcopalians have
no need to go elsewhere to pray for the
President, for whom. as we'll as for the
Governor of the Territory, prayers are
said at the morning and evening ser
vice. .ra.. .r- - .e-l.. 81,
The notion that we pray for King Ed.
ward. which Is voiced in your article,
being very widely disseminated, trust
to your courtesy to make 1t known that
the notion is not according to fact; and
that as American and Anglican are In
great measure convertible terms. the
difference being that Anglican Is more
comprehensive, there IS nothing to pre-
vent American Episcopalians finding
themselves at home in the Anglican Ca
thedral.
If your cartoonist of this morning will
read up "The Lady of the Lake" he will
find that the position and words he has
assigned to the outlaw chieftain, Roder-
lex Dhu. do not belong to him. but to
Fitz-James when all alone, he found
himself confronted by a host of the reb-
el chieftain's warriors.
ALFRED WILLIS.
March 2s, 1901
a The Advertiser spoke of American
Episcopalians who did not care to ac-
cept the leadership of an Anglican
Shepherd and to repeat prayers for His
Majesty Edward VII" The prayers
referred to were those lately uttered by
His Lordship the Bishop Of Honolulu,
in the Cathedral of his See, in phrase
as follows:
Almighty God. Who rnlest over all
the Kingdoms of the world. and dispos-
est of them according to Thy good
pleasure: we yield Thee unfeigned
thanks. for that Thou art pleased to
place Thy servant Edward VII upon the
Throne of Great Britain. Let Thy wis
dom be his guide, and let Thine arm
strengthen him; let justice. truth and
holiness, let peace and love, and all
those virtues that adorn the Christian
Profession flourish in his days; direct
all his counsels and endeavors to Thy
glory. and. the welfare of his people,
and give them grace to obey him care
fully and willingly for conscience sake:
that neither sinful passions, nor private
interests, may disappoint his cares for
the public good let him always possess
the hearts of his people, that they may
never be wanting in honor to his Per-
son, and dutiful submission to his Au-
thority; let his Reign be long and pros
porous, and crown him with immortal
ity in the life to come; through Jesus
Christ our Lord Amen.
Most gracious God, who has set Thy
servant Edward upon the Throne of his
Ancestors, we most humbly beseech
Thee to protect him on the same from
all the dangers to which he may be
exposed; Hide him from the gathering |
together of the froward, and from the ,
Instruction of wicked doors: Do thou ;
weaken the hands, blast the designs, I
and defeat the enterprises of all his en- |
emies, that no secret conspiracies. nor !
open violences, may disuuiet his Reign; |
but that, BEING safely kept under the |
shadow of Thy wing and supported by
Thy power he may triumph over all OPP
position; that SO the world may ac=