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Bishop Willis organ. quotes as follows
| from Lights and Shadows of a Long
EpiscOpate" to show that the Honolulu
Bishopric was offered, in 1871, to Bishop
| Whipple of Minnesota:
In the year 1871" the Bishop writes,
Il was honored by receiving the follow
ing letter, proffering me an English
bishopric.
Winchester House, ST. James Square
London, March s. 1871.
My Dear Bishop: I now write for
mally to ask you on behalf OF the Arch
bishop of Canterbury and myself Oo
whom the King and Synod of the Sand
wich Islands have committed the choice
of bishop TO preside over the English
mission there. and to found, if so 1t
please God. a native church here from
the mother church,, whether YOU will
undertake the post
Il very earnestly trust that God the
Holy Ghost may move your spirit to I'M
dertake this work. For believing that
your health viii not allow you to con-
tinue your labors amidst your own be-
loved people, I believe that in this new
Bishopric you may, God helping you,
lay the foundations which shall extend
throughout those Islands until you meet
Bishop Patteson from the South.
II am ever affectionately yours,
IS. WINTON
After earnest prayer for Divine guild
ance, I sought the advice of the bishops
who knew most OF Minnesota, the Sand
wich Islands, and myself. and who at
the same time fairly represented the
theological opinions of the House of
Bishops. My physician had advised me
10 seek a warm climate, believing that
the severity OF Minnesota winters de-
manded 1t.
The following letters represent the
conflicting advice which 1 received.
From the Ri. Rev. Horatio Potter.
Bishop of New York, Presiding Bishop:
New York, April % 1871.
My Dear Bishop: AS l saw a good
deal of Archdeacon Mason on his way
back to his mission I was not unprepar-
ed for your communication. Certainly,
the proffer OF the Archbishop OF Canter-
bury and the Bishop of Winchester is
highly honorable to you, and an honor
we'll deserved.
But considering all things, without
making many words about it, I incline
to the opinion that you ought not to sep
arate yourself from your present charge.
The nature Of your work is such that l
do not see how you can leave US alto
gether. But IL the King. and the Synod,
and the English people would take up
for the present four or five months
presence each year in the Islands, l
think you could get good winter eli
mate, now easily reached, and do all that
is really necessary there.
! II have this moment received from s.
Winton the enclosed. He is anxious I
should advise you to accept I have just
been writing him to ask how they would
fancy what I have suggested above.
There can be no harm in asking with
out knowing your feeling. God help us!
Give US all grace and wisdom, and help
me to trim my own Lamp.
| Ever affectionately yours,
H. POTTER.
! From the Ri Rev. John Williams.
Bishop of Connecticut. afterwards Pre-
siding Bishop:
| My Dear Brother: There are so many
and such grave questions connected with
( the offer sent by the Bishop of Winches-
! ter that I feel the greatest hesitancy in
offering any opinion in the premises. Had
your election been directly made by the
Synod, sanctioned perhaps by the King,
the matter would have been sinplitied
/ AS il is there seem to me to be many
questions growing out of the reference
OF the election Of a bishop TO the Arch
bishop of Canterbury and the Bishop OF
/ Winchester. Does it indicate and Will
it involve suffraganship to Canterbury?
These and many other perplexing ques-
tons rise to the surface at once
And so, my dear brother, l know not
what to say. Did you not preclude me
from taking personal matters into ac-
count I should say, if no relief can be
given you in Minnesota, If the Islands
viii give you relief, it would be well to
90. But l dread the going, and if you
can possibly be relieved so as to retain
Minnesota, I should hope and pray that
such would be the course that things
might take
1T does seem to me that what between
King and Synod Bishops in England,
and what not, things are in such a
snarl in those Islands that Solomon him
straight.
Il cannot, therefore, advise. but 1 can
assure you of my sincere hope that some
relief may be devised which will keep
you in the diocese which you have nobiy
founded and worked on, and of my
earnest prayer that God would guide you
b. His, good Spirit.
Believe me ever, most affectionately
yours, J. WILLIAMS.
The Rt. Rev. Henry ]. Whitehouse
Bishop Of Illinois, was in favor of his
going. The opening seems to be Of OBJ
viCus Divine guiding; and my impress
sion is very decided that you ought &c
/ encourage the development of it, and
j that we should meet the case by sucf
expression and legislation, if needful, as
! may be consOnant with the breadth OF
the occasion. There seems TO me TO oe
no limit TO the Importance of the re-
suits to be attained by ii, ecclesiastical
~ and socially. Bishop Staley was no.
the man. perhaps to cope with the rep
resentatives of missionary sectarianisn
/ in the Islands. But it is certainly tru'
that the Yankee management and olt
tcrness were not to be praised. You car
meet all these nominally, and they Wi
iEtuitively admit the differences, ane
largely recede from avowed collision An
nexation is the manifest destiny of tn
5 Sandwich Islands, and you of all mel
among US can with. cody wisdom Iasi
0 ion the social elements. The WORK L
! be done directly for Christ ana f1i
q Church you can measure better than an!
one else, because of the intimate asso
= citation of your brother Grew Georg
n Whipple) with it.
LAS a demonstration OF our Anglican
fellowship, the incident will be glorious
Everything in the movement seems pro