The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-10
AS TO THE
CHURCH ROW
Rev. MIR. MaCkin.
tosh's Paper on
the Crisis.

The following is from the current
icle:
With respect to the affairs of the
Second Congregation of st. Andrews
Cathedral We can only say that there
is no need to add more fuel to the
flame that has been kindled in this suf-
fering church. The people most con-
cerned know their own case thorough
ly and the cause of their sufferings,
and they have laid their complaint be-
fore the church in America, their only
ecclesiastical source of appeal.
The general public have seen this
matter placed before them in very fair
terms by the local press, and their
sympathies with the oppressed are
manifest. The religious community
will be drawn together in closer bonds
by the fraternal and practical sympa
thy evinced by the pastors and mem
bers of the several churches, which
will be never forgotten by the Anglican
church.
There are some new members who
are ignorant of the past history and
for their information we give the fol-
lowing facts:
We think that it may be truthfully
asserted that in the annals of church
history there is not another case where
a Bishop of the church has closed the
doors of "a church to exclude congre-
CATION, whose only crime was it's OBJ
lection to his personal rule as rector.
The body of directors have no author
ity over the services of the church.
Their duty is to guard the property.
The trustees of the Anglican church in
Hawaii, the predecessors of the pres
ent directors, were not consulted in the
granting of the buildings to the Sec
ond Congregation. They were chosen
mainly by that congregation which had
existed from the beginning of the mis-
sion to take care of it's own property.
The Bishop of Honolulu simply freed
the English-speaking people from his
own personal control. Had he not done
So there is every reason to believe
that the Anglican church in Hawaii
would be represented today as it is in
the congregation over which he is vir-
tually the rector From the moment
this part of the church was free. it be-
gan to be a factor in the community,
and to exercise an influence beneficial
to all who come within its borders.
This is the only reason for its attempt
ed dissolution.
On the minister's appeal for guild |
ance TO the Bishops most Interested in
Hawaiian church affairs, he was told |
to do all he could to preserve the stat |
us quo until April 1, when Bishop Will |
lis jurisdiction would expire. Had
any one of the Bishops in America
counseled him to obey Bishop Willis he
would have done so, even against his
own judgment.
Bishop Willis is responsible for the
trouble and inconvenience which the
members of the Second Congregation
have suffered, and he will have to an
swer for his conduct before the proper
tribunal. 1t is asserted very authori-
tatively that the directors were oppos-
ed to Bishop Willis plan of annihilat-
ing the Second Congregation, and only
gave their vote for the clos
ing of the church doors.
We give little ecclesiastical law for |
the perusal of our island churchmen.
The following appertains to Missionary
Bishops and of Missionaries of various
branches of the Anglican Communion:
Paragraph IS: LAS regards the with
drawal of a license, your committee
find that in some provinces the mode
of proceeding for revocation has been
fixed by Canon, and the jurisdiction
thus created has been established by
/
essary to make any recommendations.
Where no such jurisdiction exists your
recommend that the Bishop
should in no case proceed to the revo-
cation of a clergymans license without
him the opportunity of show
ing cause against it, and that if the
Bishop shall afterwards proceed to re-
yoke the license, he should, if the cler-
gyman desire it, state the reasons for
MS decision to such clergyman and also
to the Metropolitan, who should have
power to sanction or disallow the rev.
ocation. In cases where there is no
the Archbishop of Can
Lerbury should be regarded as the Met
ropolitan for this purpose. No such
revocation should take place except for :
grave ecclesiastical offenses.''
These recommendations We're adopt
"a by the Lambeth Conference of 1898.