The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-12
WE ASK FOR MORE LIGHT.

Arising with righteous Indignation
and addressing himself to the Rev.
Alexander Macintosh and the largest
body of Episcopal communicates in this
city, the good Deacon Tesla says, vide
the Independent:
Let the Bishop alone, renegades; he
serves Christ better than you can ever
do ss&iiEg
This opens up an interesting inquiry
upon which, the good Deacon, as
Sancho Panza to the Bishops Don
Quixote, ought to cast more. light. His
master cannot always be made to ex-
plain what the populace most wants to
know of him; but good Sancho Panza
Is talkatiye person and we rely upon
him entirely in this instance
Serving Christ, as we understand that
function, is serving the world and par
ticularly ones .ne1ghbors and associates
in the spirit of the Sermon on the
Mount. Our Sancho Panza says that
the Bishop serves Christ better than
the vast majority of Episcopalians here.
and treats the question SO like an ex-
pert in religious things that we shall
expect him to particularize.
For about quarter of century, the
chief visible activity of the Bishop has
been that of fighting his parishioners;
and what we want to know is how
activity of that kind in the light of the
Sermon on the Mount Is compatible
with the Deacon's claim of a special
and peculiar distinction for the Bishop
as servitor of Christ? Here is text
from the Lords discourse which would
seem to be In point:
But 1 say unto you, That whosoeyer
is angry with his brother without a
cause shall be in danger of the judg-
ment.
The question which goes with this
paragraph is whether the anger of the
Bishop at the unwilingness Of St
Clements Chapel to transfer its prop
erty to him before his right to be a
Bishop, under Anglican Jurisdiction. on
American soil, has been determined. is
"a cause" within the Savior's meaning?
Assuming that our good Deacon, as
an ecclesiastical Sancho Panza, will say
that 1t is, how does the action of the
Bishop comport with this command?
Agree with thine adversary quickly
whilst thou art in the way with him.
Now taking the general attitude of
the Bishop-his endless persecution of
the Second Congregation; his Jesuitical
use of form of temporary conveyance
of real estate as the basis of a prac-
teal communication of the Rev.
John osborne; his envenomed com
ments upon those, within his fold, who
disagree with him: his statement that
one priest is a '1iar" and that another
has '.unmitigated cheek" made because
they had done him an alleged personal
injury-how do these things suggest
Serving Christ" as such service is de-
fined in the following texts:
But say unto you, That We resist not
evil; but whosoever shall snite thee on
the right cheek, turn to him the other
also.
But l say unto you, Love your ene-
mics, bless them that curse you, do good
to them that hate you, and pray for them
which despitefully use you and prosecute
you
We await with anticipatory pleasure
the appearance of the Deacon with his
explanatory notes, feeling sure that he
will do his best to dispel the growing
impression that the Bishops service of
Christ is akin to that of some of his
sacred predecessors who, when they
met parishiorer who ventured to dis
agree with them as to property or
theological concerns, promptly handed
them over to the Lord Keeper of the
Crematory for the greater glory Of God.