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OF IN s. p G.. grants or to cease to eN-
Jet in consequence of the change of civil
II. with regard to the first supposi-
tion a diocese once created cannot be {
d ssolyed by reducing it to poverty. The +
American Church hardly needs remlnd- (
ing that never were bishops more down
t,-odfen and poverty-stricken than the :
Scottish bishops in 1854, when they con- F
secl ated DIR. Seabury and gave TO the
American Church the gift of the Episco-
pate which State trammels restrained the /
English bishops from bestowing. Power /
ty-stricken though they were, the Scot
fish bishops were bishops still of the do
ceses over which they had been set, and
the Bishop of Honolulu is not one whit
less the bishop Of that Diocese because
he can no longer draw on the society
for his own maintenance or for the sup
port of his clergy. For as the author of
The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity puts
the matter: For men that have any
part of skill what more evident and plain
in bishops than that augmentation or
diminution in their precincts, allow
ances, privileges, ard such like, DO make
q difference indeed, but no essential alf-
ference between one bishop and anoth-
err Qdooker Book vii, ch. il, y.
70. If the status of the Bishop and Do
cese is unaffected by the withdrawal of
the society's aid, the next question Is
whether or no it is altered by the change
of civil government. That this is the
case seems to- be assumed In the Memo
randum. In the sixth paragraph 1T is
stated that on the annexation of the ISL
ands to the United States the Islands
fell under the care of a branch OF the
Anglican Communion" Using similar
language, the Bishop of New York, in
letter to the Bishop of Honolulu, says:
..The Church in Honolulu, since Homo
4y.< 1rnv~r of ho
States, is, in accordance with primitive
usage, under the jurisdiction of our Pre-
siding Bishop" If by the language of
the Memorandum it is meant that the
American branch of the Anglican
Church ought now to take the Diocese
of honolulu under its care; If the Bishop
OF New York means that the Diocese OF
Honolulu should now be brought into the
organization of the American Church,
and the Bishop of Honolulu own the Pre-
siding Bishop of the Church in the Unit
ed States as his Metropolitan, then these
statements have the cordial assent OF the
Bishop and Synod of the Diocese of Ho-
noluIu, which has hitherto been exclud-
ed from any provincial organization.
But if the meaning of the Memorandum
is that the raising of the United States
flag on the Government buildings in Ho-
nolulu brought the Islands under the &C.
ciesiastical jurisdiction of the American
Church; if Bishop Potter means that
Church and State are so closely inter-
tnined in the United States that on the
ACQUISITION of these Islands by the
United States they were SO brought UNI
der the ecclesiastical sway of the Amer
lean branch of the Anglican Communion.
that there was no longer any place Tor
the offshoot of the same communion
planted by the mother Church, and the
jurisdiction of the Bishop Of Honolulu
was annulled, it is necessary to appeal
to history whether it is in accordance
with primitive usage that such result
: should follow the political change. 1t is
obvious that the unity in which the sew
eraI branches of the Anglican Commun-
ion are now believed to be knit together
would be broken, if, when one branch Is
, already rooted in some region OF the
, earth it must be torn UP to make room
: for another branch of the same commun-
, ion, in consequence of a change of earth.
, ~ sovereignty.
: 10. If the views expressed by Bishop
= Potter are sound, and it is in accordance
; with primitive usage that the 1ur1sdlc
q ton of the Presiding Bishop or INT
= United States overshadowS and annul
all other ecclesiastical jurisdiction, wher
ever the authority of the President O
: the United States is owned, how is 1t t
he explained that Cyprian did not evel
: acknowledge the Bishop of Rome as nj
: Metropolitan, although the Africal
. Church was within the Roman Empire
y If the position taken by the Bishop o
!. New York rests on sure founaatlo1
n there is no denying to the Bishops o
u Rome is a right to the title of Universe
u bishop until the breakup CT the Roma
Is Empire. But no such jurisdiction wa
claimed by the Bishops of Rome till Ion
after the time of Cyprian. Innocent
who was Bishop Of Rome at the begin
lC oP ha
y principle that it was not fitting That tn
le Church of God should change her cours
= ad mobilifatem necessitatum mundane
=, ram QUOTED by Bright. Notes on Tn
:, Canons): j. e.. to suit the nconseahc
:. of mundane interests.
- a. The cession of the Isle of Man an
n the '.Sudereys'' or Hebrides by Magnr
= " of Norway to Alexander III of SEQ
Is, land in 1866 presents case not unlls
N the transfer Of the Hawaiian Islands
the United States. But the Diocese Wh1c
n those islands constituted remained NO
W wegian, Notwithstanding the change
sovereignty, the metropoiitical rights
o. the Church of Dronthe!m being expreSsl
IL reserved. Similarly the Archbishops
40 York continued to exercise metropolitic;
40 authority over the South of Scotland {
a. far as the Firth of Forth, long after tt
A. consolidation of the Scottish Kingdom.
hi 15 In the face of this testimony, 1t ca
~ hardly be maintained Inat eccieSldSlle
Id jurisdiction is and always has been
m conterrninous with civil authority Thu
n at the raising of the American flag II
he Hawaiian Islands fell under the Jurisdi
ar ton OF the Presiding Bishop of Il
American Church, and that it BEGAN
20 Incumbent on the S. P. G. to use sut
n haste in withdrawing all support fro
be the Diocese Of Honolulu that the seye
n ance of the society's connection with Il
err Diocese came into effect sixteen da.
oh after the Hawaiian Islands became
ST. Territory of the United States.
H. l6 But If it be the case (the Questi'
de being one for canonists to decided tn
81 the acquisition of the Islands by I
he United States ipso facto extended
H. them the metropolitical authority of t
nd Presiding Bishop of the United State
on then it follows that there should be
he delay in admitting the Diocese of Hon
of lulu into the American branch of t
ed Anglican Communion. 1t would not
he in accordance with primitive usage tn
% the extension of such metropoitical a
,ly thority should interfere with the dioc
ar san jurisdiction of the Bishop of Hon
lot LULU and still less that the Hawaii;
Ie- Islands, after being for over thirty yea
m under the undisputed charge of t
re- bishops of Honolulu, should row be p
* der the supervision of a. bishop 81
he ias away. (See Chalcedon Canon