The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-12-10
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chalSnSeu Mr.. Tesla to prove that HI
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The Rev. Mr.. Tomkins though
there were several expressions used il
the report which should be eliminated
as they were too severe. He thought
Christian charity should prevent mer
from making such statements The
Rev. Alex. Macintosh moved To refer
the report back TO the committee OF
! lay 1t on the table The committee
had arrogated powers to itself clearly
not in its province. Tesla retprted
that IT Gid have such powers.
| Il don't think it has the right tC
bring in personal grievances. 1t is a
mistake to say this sort of things,
| said Mr.. Macintosh. Mr.. Keen sug-
| gested the members remember they
were all Christians. The bishop was
| extremely anxious TO shut off debate
| and put the resolution at once Mr..
Macintosh moved to table, and the
| bishop peremptorily refused to recog-
| niZe the motion. Tesla then said the
Rev. Mr.. Tomkins had made an allu-
] sion suggesting 1t was due to ignorance
| that the displeasing words had been
| inserted. Mr.. Tomkins rose to explain
| he had not made such a statement,
when Tesla angrily told him to sit
down, as he had the floor. An adjourn
ment was taken at 6 o'clock. when the
debate was at white heat, to give the
members time to cool off for an hour.
The night session was interesting.
Tesla made apologies for his remarks
relative to Mr.. Tomkins and Mr.. Mack
intosh. The report was finally laid on
the table, Tesla standing out against
the vote. Rev. Canon Ault moved the
adoption of the addendum. Tesla said
that would suit him as the addendum
was more severe than his report. AS
the motion was being put Mr. Kitcat
asked the bishop whether it carried
disfranchisement to the kohala dis
trict The bishop felt that the matter
had gone far enough, and rather than
have it recorded that another branch
OF his Anglican church had been cut
off and isolated like the Second Con-
gregation and Rev. John Usborne's
chapel, he ruled that it would not, and
the addendum was adopted by a vote
of Is to 4.
Tesla then spoke of his former re-
marks about the American prayerbook,
and desired to withdraw them. lie
found that he had looked into the vol
une, and even had one in his possess
sion. He also withdrew his dissenting
vote against the resolution giving over
to the American church the Anglican
Jurisdiction in Hawaii. He had thought
the matter over, and in the interests
of harmony, unity and peace, he would
make the vote unanimous.
Bishop Willis then read an address, in
which he said he had q matter of inn
portance, and went on to show that the
course followed in the adoption of the
resolutions by the house of bishops at
San Francisco was that which was out
lined by him in 1899. He said the APP
prevail of the civil authorities only was
wanting to transfer the Anglican church
into the Protestant Episcopal Church in
the Hawaiian Islands, of which the pres
ent diocese of Honolulu would be a mis-
SiOp3ry- district after ADril LIST Before
the synod adjourned he said it would be
necessary to look out for rocks which
woGEd lie in the way. The synod had
been exact in its laws, which require
expenditure could be made, but while
straining out the gnats it might be swal-
lowing the camel of a pledged debt OF
81. 500 year. The position confronting
the church, he said was one which in
volyed the credit of this branch in the
eyes of the whole church in the United
States. He said he held in his hand the
evidence of this in the shape of a memo
rial carried for presentation to both
houses of the general convention by a
member of the synod but without any
from the synod. which gave
the guarantee of large expenditure in
the name of the church. but without the
of the representatives of the
church in the synod
The bishop said that while the synod
had been sticklers for regularity in small
would they be Indifferent in
large ones? He asked if the members
would recognize that one member could,
without its authority, be the delegate Of
a caucus Of the constituents which would
involve the assembly in pledges of ex- |
pen6iture. He said he held the accept :
ance of the office of delegate by a MEM
Der of the synod as subversive of the
first principles of constitutional govern /.
ment for the establishment of which he I,
had fought in this diocese.
The maintenance of the faith might be
mperilled he sad, if the authority of I
the synod was TO be disregarded He re- ,
counted how the delegate went TO San
Francisco and arrived there five days
ahead of the bishop. He found that the ,
Hawaiian matters had been concluded .
when he arrived, and all that he was ,
asked TO do was to give his consent to /
conclusion reached by the bishops. i
This he did, it was in accord with his
,lans. He said 1t was not until the mat
er came down to the house of deputies
hat it became Ineligible why the bish-
Ups did not wait for his arrival. 1t was
IT, ted on the floor that $1,500 would be
for the support of an Amerl-
an bishop as the bishops had been per-
Uaded that he was persona ingrata, and
hat nothing would be subscribed to the
Episcopal stipend so long as he filed the
See
The bishop then said he asked the syn
d TO look forward. In three months the
resident of the standing committee
would receive q letter from the presiding
bishop of the Episcopal church inquiring
whether or not the committee was will
ne to pay half the stipend of the bishop
cCOrd-ng to the guarantee. He said the
knows nothing Of the guaran-
&c, and in that case could not answer
he bishop He went on: IF no guar
ntee has been given, not only the stand
ng committee but the whole Episcopal
hurch in the Hawaiian Islands viii fail
nder the reproach of having allowed the
eneral convention to be deceived by a
lemorial from responsible persons. the
of which they had no
leans of discovering. If d guarantee
as been made as stated then the synod
ught to call on the member who con-
eyed the memorial 10 San Francisco to
~ before the synod the copy of the Sig
atures to that memorial" He also
bought there should be notes and docu-