The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-03-21
BISHOP Willis NIERDICT
BULLS"
ISSUED.
EPISCOPAL
st. Clements Chapel and It's. Trustees
and the Church Defence and Exten-
sion Association Under the Ban.

Bishop Willis has issued two circulars
lately which are of great interest to |
communicates of the Anglican and |
Protestant Episcopal churches, and to |
all who have taken any interest in the |
controversy which has been going on
for several years in the diocese of Ho- |
nolulu. One of them is in relation to
st. Clements chapel and the trustees /
in whose names that church property |
is held. The other is in relation to |
1.-THE Church Defence and Extension
Association of Hawaii
The first is addressed Ito all members
of the Anglican Communion to whom |
these parents may come 1t has been
styled an "Interdict" though Bishop |
Willis does not give it so formidable a
name. To churchmen however, it is
said it appears to be little less formid |
able than an interdict.
The pronunciamento in relation to
| the Church Defence and Extension AS
sociation is little less formidable than
the other. This is addressed ito all to
whom these presents may come" and
| is not limited like the other to MEM
bers of the Anglican communion.
The ''interdict," bull" or whatever
it's appropriate designation may be, re-
lating to the trustees of st. Clements
is as follows:
I To all Members of the Anglican Cum
munion to whom these Presents may
GhEETING: Be it known unto you
by these presents, that the Reverend
John osborne, formerly of the City of
Toronto, admitted to the order of
Priesthood by the Lord Bishop of Tor
onto, in the year of our Lord 1889, and
appointed in the year 1897, to a position
of dignity and trust in the Anglican
church in Hawaii, (the said Church be-
ing an offshoot of the Church of Eng
land planted in the Hawaiian Islands,
in full communion with the Protestant
Episcop9 Church in the United States,
and with all the daughter Churches of
the Church of England throughout the
world) has freely voluntarily, and by
his own act separated himself from the
Communion of the Anglican Church
aforesaid, having made himself the
founder of new sect under the name
and style of 'The Episcopal Church at
Large" according to the tenor of
Deed of Conveyance recorded in the
. Registry of Conveyances of the Terri
tory of Hawaii, Liber 173, folio 140
= dated October !, 1897, whereby "A certain
! piece of land was conveyed to "Thos. r.
Walker, Esq, Tom May, ESQ, and Rev.
John Osborne, al of said Honolulu, as
t Trustees in trust FOR the use and bene-
) fit of The Episcopal Church at Large =
- to have and to hold as Trus-
tees of the Episcopal Church, their
heirs, successors in trust and assigns
sistently rejected every opportunity of
t fered him of bringing the church built
r under the Trust aforesaid together with
) himself and his congregation into union
: with the Anglican Church in Hawaii.
= In testimony whereof 1 have hereunto
set my hand this twenty-seventh day of
February, in the year of our Lord, one
thousand nine hundred and one
ALFRED WILLIS,
t Bishop of Honolulu.
. I certify that the above Declaration
3 was this day duly recorded in the Re-
3 gistry of the Diocese of Honolulu, dated
5 this 4th day of March. 1901.
:. EDMUND STILES,
e Registrar.
The circular relating to the Church
Defence Association is as follows:
The Church Defence and Extension
Association of Hawaii.
To all to whom these Presents may
Come, Greeting: Be it known to you
: by these Presents, that Whereas there
= was published in The Churchman, Vol
s SO, No. 5. dated February 2, 1901, a let
ter on The Church in Hawaii" signed
J, Geo. S. Harris, President, for the
D.; Church Defence and Extension Associa-
+ tion of Hawaii, Honolulu, H. l., Jan
+ uary 2, 1901, intended to make it APP
?. pear and be believed in the United
h States that the Rt. Rev. A. c. A. Hall
s d. D., Bishop of Vermont, had been
Il misinformed anu was generally in error
: in the statements concerning the Angli-
= can Church in Hawaii published over
It his signature in a previous issue (that
of December u of the same journal:
The position and standing of the SAID
Association is as follows
q l. The said Church Defence and Elk,
! tension Association has no recognition
% from the Bishop, Synod or any of the
\ Parochial Clergy of the Diocese OF
- Honolulu.
2. The said Church Defence and Ex
= tension Association was incorpora tee
= on March 10, 1899, through the instru
mentality of one John Osborne clerk
late of Toronto, Canada, who had pre-
viously, in 1897, separated himself from
> the Anglican Church in Hawaii, IL
which he had been given position o
dignity and trust, and became tht
founder of a schism holding property
under the name and style of The Epis
copal Church at Large" and II was 70
the Defence and Extension of thiI
schismatical body, and not of thu
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