The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-11
Letters Which Nav
Change All
Plans.
All Things Should Be
Kept Unchanged
Awhile.
4 LTHoUGH it is the eleventh hour.

A LTHOUGH it is the eleventh hour,
"A members of the Second Congrega-
a - ton of ST. Andrews Cathedral
are not without hope that Bishop Will
lis will see the error of his way and
permit the status quo to be maintain
ed until the arrival here. on April 1st,
of the new American Bishop.
While all along it has been the con-
tention that the swallowing up of the
Second Congregation by the tirst was
being attempted by the order Of the
American House of Bishops letters re-
ceived in the mail IN the Alameda yes
terday show conclusively that this was
never the intention of the American
church but that it was the desire of
the Bishops of that organization that
affairs here remain as they were when
the convention voted to receive the
church here, until the representative of
the Episcopal church comes to take UP
the work.
The letter in question was written af-
ter information had been received of
the move of Bishop Willis. and the ef-
feet of that action was taken as the
text of the letter. In it the American
Bishop, one of the members of the su-
perior body of the convention which
admitted the local church, said to the
official of the Second Congregation that
Iif the conditions proposed to be inaug-
urated by Bishop Willis were unac-
to permit affairs to remain as they
were until the arrival here of an Amer
lean Bishop. Added to this was the
phrase: This would seem to be the le-
gal procedure"
This has been communicated to sew
eraI officers and members of the con-
gregation and the result is that there
exists feeling of complete satisfaction
over the situation. The fact that there
was small registration, that there
appeared at the meeting of the sup
posedly united congregation only ten
persons other than those whose busi-
ness it was to be there, and that there
was not one of these persons who had
been affiliated with the Second Congre-
CATION, is taken to mean that the Bish-
op will recognize that further opposi-
ton to the plain wishes of the COM
municants of the faith here will be in
terpreted as persecution.
There was a new feature sprung upon
the followers of Alfred of Honolulu
yesterday, in that his attention was
called to the fact that while he was
proceeding along lines which are sup
posed to be those of the new charter
Of the church here, that charter never
has been signed and in consequence
his acts have not the sanction of the
synodical convention. A few of the
more enthusiastic members of the con-
gregation are Of opinion that this
would invalidate the actions of the
Bishop and they will press this point
before it is too late.
Should there be no receding from his
position by the Bishop the service of
omorrow will be the last that the Sec
md Congregation viii hold in the
cathedral, while the present Bishop is
It the head of affairs. What steps will
,e taken have not been decided upon
wing to the fact that negotiations are
lot considered off as yet. Should the
worst come to the worst, there is
trong disposition on the part Of some
f the members to get church ediace
ehere they may worship. Should this
e done and a demand made upon the
Bishop for the privilege to maintain a
and parish, naming the
ector that it is desired to serve them
e cannot refuse sanction and the
eeded license.
should Bishop Willis be obdurate he
Ill refuse to issue the license TO the
econd Congregation, and its rector to
,injgter to the members OF that flock
here can be no action by Bishop VII
. .1ore to withdraw from Mr.. Mack
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