The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-28
MORE FROM
HIS LORDSH|P
He Has His Say
In Vigorous
Phrase.
| THOSE PRAYERS
FOR EDWARD VII
Strongly Questions the Authen.
ITCHY Of the Calls interview
With Rev. Mr.. Wallace.

Editor Advertiser: Reciprocating your
aloha, allow me space to relieve the pan
ic with which the reverend editor of
The Friend appears to have inspired you
with regard to those special prayers for
King Edward that you reprint this morn
ing, by pointing out, first, that in the
Anglican Church a Bishop has no more
authority to incorporate prayers put out
for a special occasion, such as a memo
rial service, into the regular order of
worship than he has to change the Sun
day lessons from Holy Scripture; and
secondly, these prayers are word for
word the same were used in the Ca
erick on the occasion of the memorial
service held in the Cathedral for Emper-
or William I of Germany. AT that time
the danger TO all who wore crown
from anarchists and nihilists was great
er than now, and made the second col
lect particularly appropriate. Such dan
gers cannot be said to have SO entirely
passed away to have rendered its use
| inappropriate on the occasion of the &C
| cession of King Edward to the throne OF
| Great Britain. These remarks, l trust,
! effectually lay the ghost of these pray
| ers, and give the assurance that neither
your nor the editor of The Friend $,
peaceful slumbers need be disturbed by
the blood-curdling spectre of prayers fol-
Kings and Dukes or, piping up unexpect-
edly in cathedral service on republican
sell ALFRED WILLIS.
March 81. 1901
! Editor Advertiser: An article you re-
print this morning from the San Fran
cisco Call of March II purports to give
the views of the Rev. George Wallace
with regard to matters ecclesiastical IN
| Honolulu.
| AS Mr.. Wallace is now in Japan, and
! therefore out of reach of the Calls in
reviewers, your readers will do well &C
wait till Mr.. Wallace can be leard from
before assuming that he ever expressed
the sentiments attributed to him by that
paper. I ask this on three grounds:
| l. The sentiments of tne. article are al
| together irreconcilable with the follow
ing lines penned by Mr. WALLACE to my
self when leaving the diocese: For your
self, Rt. Rev. Sir, 1 shall always enter.
tain feelings of high regard, and ask yor
to forget all and aught in which I may
! have seemed to you to be wanting IL
cordial cooperation with your views ant
plans"
2. Mr.. Wallace, who was an homes
man, must have undergone an extraor
binary change, if he had the unmitigatet
cheek to suggest Gas the article sug
gests) that the Anglican Church in Ha
wall should yield it's title to valuabl,
property without even the assuranc,
that the purpose and organization 70
which that property is held will b.
maintained.
3. There is such striking similarit,
in the string of falsehoods aand misrepre
sensations that make up the article to
string of the same falsehoods that ha
appeared elsewhere, of which Mr.. Wal
lace Is certainly innocent, that in m,
own mind I have very little doubt tina
the author is not an American, but on
who was, and probably is still, British
subject. ALFRED WILLIS
March q. 1901.