The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-12-12
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any step which might seem to make ii
responsible for the maintenance of a See
not permanently endowed. The course of
history has, however, brought with IL a
solution of this question. We are about
TO become a part of what We may per-
haps call the one large Provincial Sys-
tenn OF the American Church. 1t will be
strange indeed If we do not gain any ad-
~vantages from the real iZation of q re-
lat-onship which your Lordship saw so
long ago to be needful for the well being
of our church.
When the Anglican mission was first
planted in these Islands. It's attention
was directed mainly to work among the
Hawaiian and English speaking peoples.
but the advent of a large population of
Chinese opened out an entirely new field
for missionary enterprise. And it is a
cause of great thankfulness that so
strong a work has taken root among the
Chinese people during your LOrdship's
episcopate. We nave the pleasure of
numbering amongst our members on this
synod four Chinese gentlemen. Two of
these are laymen and two clergymen.
Both of these latter received Their educa-
ton and their admission to holy orders
ut the hands OF your L~ordship. 1t is in
teresttng IN this connection to note
through the passing of boys from St.
Peters School or Io,ani College to Shang-
bai-the link that has ARISEN. connecting
49, 1AA1N 1O0A SIM = 1dAS
with that being carried on by the Amer
lean Church in the Far East. If the
China mission receives from your success
sor as great n care as t has received
from yourself. 1t should find a bright
future awaiting Ii.
Though it has not been possible for the
Anglican church to bring into existence
a Hawaiian ministry, nevertheless your
Lordship alluded in your address to an
important point when you spoke of the
translation of the Book of Common
Prayer into the Hawaiian language. This
work was originally done by Kamehame-
ha ~, who received able assistance from
David Kalakua-afterwards King Of the
Hawaiian Islands. But the Revised Ver-
sion now, and for a long time past. in
use, was the work of your Lordship. To
you also is the church indebted for the
collection of S01 hymns in Hawaiian now
in use, besides lesser but useful little
books like those on the catechism and
the holy communion. Nor while we are
speaking of your work for the Hawaii
ans must We forget the interest you DIS
played in the other Polynesian races in
the Pacific by your visitation of Samoa,
Fiji and Tonga in 1891. !
PARTING OFFERS.
Finally we desire to bear our testi-
mony to the deep and permanent inter-
est your Lordship has shown in the well
fare Of this church by the offers of land,
now held in your LOrdship's name, for
purchase by the church. It is not posi-
BILE for US. at this moment to state how
far the church ma be enabled to meet
these opportunities. Nor IS It necessary
for our present purpose. Your offers
stand, accepted or un~accepted, n testi-
mony to your disinterested generosity.
The synod has even now taken those
steps which We're necessary to compile
maOt the aptiOo IA ken two N-parc a on fo :
Bring the Anglican Church in Hawaii
into union with the Protestant Episcopal
Church in the United States of America.
anglican Church in these Islands
WIN soon be a thing of the past. In
April eff next year your .Lordship viii re-
.linqu,sh the episcopal oversight to the
House of bishops.
We do not intend at this moment and
in your presence to attempt any estimate I
of your work. But we feel confident Of
this, that If in our new relationship, #
under the constitution and canons of the
American Church, in organic union with
that great body, our work here develop
in the future into proportions not yet at
tanned, no one viii rejoice more than
your Lordship, upon whom has devolv-
ed In the bygone years the duty of lay
Ing foundations. For my own part" we
quote your Lordship's own words, al
shall be thankful If I am permitted to
lay a foundation upon which those who
come after me may build; to SOW where
they may reap" etc, etc. If the Angii-
can Church in Hawaii is inheriting a
precious inheritance in her admission to
the Protestant Episcopal Church in the
United States of America, It must not be
forgotten on the other hand thai that
church IS receiving at your Lordship's
hands the episcopal oversight of a.
church that has been fully organized on
principles laid down at Lambeth in a
conference of the bishops of the whole
communion.
ALBERT B.. WEYMOUTH,
KONG YIN TET.
T. Give DAVIES,
F. w. WOOD,
S. MEHEULA,
Committee on Behalf of the Synod.
When the reading was finished Bish-
op Willis stood and returned MS
in part as follows: Il th'nk
you all for the kind words contained in
the address, and particularly for the
words concerning the efforts of Mrs.
Willis after the plague, in establishing
the Victoria Hospital for I~ncurdbles,
which I hope is now to become q per
manent institution. I was not pre-
pared for all that was contained in
address. I desire to express 10
you thanks for your kline words as 20
my future. I also wish to speak TO
you a few words with reference TO this
session. I believe that this session Will
a historical chapter in the work of
the Anglican communion. I think that
what we have accomplished will IL q
lesson in the perfect communion that
exists between all branches of the
church, because If the church of Eng
and the church in the United
were not one 1t would not have
been possible for us to have made the 4,
changes that have been made by the
very simple process we have adopted.
Many Of you know that when the time :
approached when the transfer was 10
be considered, a great deal was said l
about there being a conveyance Of I
from one church to another, l
but we also find that 1t was possible :
to pass one church to another by ex- :
antlu the SAM nrlcess and Just IS q