The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-12-03

ce5Tes the GoTernoris approval. K Is
not until April /. 1872. that the Ha-
Ezfian Islands viIl become . Mission
airy District OF the Protestant EpIs-
copaI Church and not until a Bishop
has been coasecrzted 20 the Mission
sry District OF Honolulu will there
be any authority to select as the
Bishop OF a Missionary District IS
empowered 20 select the Constitution
and Cancns OF one Of the Dioceses in
the United States for the admInistra-
/ ton Of his Jurisdiction II will. there
fore. be necessary TO provide that
the Constitution Of the Anglican
Church in Hawaii together with IN
repealed statutes and resolutions en-
ected and passed BY the Diocesan
Synod. so far as they do not conflict
with the Constitution and Canons OF
the P. E. Church. remain in force IN
I'll other order is taken BY a Bishop
eOnseerated for the Missionary Dis
trict OF Honolulu
When we have done this | believe
we shall have done all that the reso-
luton of November. 1893 pledged US
70 do. and which my communication
20 the House Of Bishops assured the
General Convention az San Francisco
that the Synod would do
stated at the opening OF my ad-
dress that special importance at
taches 20 the work that falls to US
TO do. inasmuch as whatever steps
We take for the adjustment OF cur
ecclesiastical organization 10 the
changed political environment may.
and In all proba bility will be referred
TO. at some future date, as a prece-
dent TO be followed. whenever a SINH
| lar situation NAV occur.
And here / might pass on to other
matters, were il not that By the mem
orial already referred 10 this Diocese
has been publicly arraigned before
the General Convention of the Church
TO which we are seeking TO be united.
and il Is due to that Church as well
as to ourselves that a searching in
quiry be made into the allegations
contained in the memorial and the au
thority on which they are made.
First OF all let me point out that
the Diocesan SynCd expressed by
unanimous voice the wish that the in
tegrity OF the Church in these Islands
be maintained, the maintenance or
that integrity depending on the con-
tinuance of a Bishops seat within
the Hawaiian Islands. On that Do
cesar Synod every Parish, Mission
airy District and Congregation was
represented. Nevertheless, the memo
rial purporting TO come from Church
men runs counter to the voice of the
Synod, and is indifferent whether
there be a resident Bishop here or
not Now, it is subversive of the
principles of constitutional govern
ment that when a conclusion has been
arrived at by a body of representa-
tives. the constituents of that body
should endeayor to upset that con-
clusion by Independent action. This
is the position which any persons en-
titled to vote for Synodsmen, who
signed that memorial have placed
themselves.
The memorial alleges. as | have
already mentioned that the Church in
the Islands does not progress. and
that friction is the impeachment to
progress The causes of friction are
not stated. but it is implied that the
III tue liAObAOh AACS
with the Administration. for it Is stat
ed that the friction will cease on a
change of the Ecclesiastical Author
ity administering the Diocese.
Now whilst on the one hand fric-
ton may arise through faults of the
Administration. en- the other hand
there may be conditions when pro-
gress would be impossible without it
Thus in the Gospel for the week we
have a record of friction in the Jew
ish Church reaching its eliminating
point when He whom men looked up
on as the Sea of the Carpenter OF
Nazareth Indignantly used the Ian
guage of jeremiah to the best people
in Jerusalem. and told them that they
had made the Temple of God den
of thieves. That friction was neces-
sary to the redemption of the world
and the birth of the Church of Christ.
And when you consider that the
Church cannot be loyal to its Divine
Founder, il it makes friends with the
world. or refuses the yoke of Christ, 1t
will be clear to YOU. and the history OF
the Church demonstrates the truth.
that whenever any with in the Church
GtluSS " 10 lhC OA0St AAN oA~
cipline of the branch TO which they
belong. and rebel against constituted
authority; or, If the world so creeps
into the Church that the Gospel stan
dard OF morals is lowered to conform
to the standard of society. friction be-
comes inevitable between those who
are maintaining the Gospel standard
and those whose aim it is TO drag it
down. For, in such case. IL there
were no friction the life of the church
would expire. and its candlestick be re-
moved out of its place.
The ST. Clements Affair.
Who. then. are they who approached
the great convention at San Francis
co with their complaint of the progress
OF the Church being impeded by fric-
ton. Two names are connected with
the memorial, the one that of the Rev.
J. osborne and the other that Of
delegate from the Second Congrega-
ton OF St Andrews. who was the
bearer of II to San Francisco. The
form in which the memorial was first
published was stated 10 have been
drawn by society called the Church
Defense and Extension Society. That
society being unknown TO this Synod.