The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-03-10
ST, ANDREWS CATHEDRAL
COHSECRAIEO
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ions change. but the faith once deliv-
cred remains unchanged from age 40
age for IL is faith in Him who is the
same yesterday and today and forever.
Yet the adversary of the faith will
never cease his efforts to undermine
this faith. and loosen mems grasp upon
il. There must be heresies, writes the
Apostle that they that are approved
may be made manifest among you.
And what is heresy but a choice. A
choosing the opinion OF this man OF
that in place OF the doctrine OF the
church resting on the Word of God.
These shifting opinions are ever being
offered to your acceptance, and the
trial is made OF you whether you will
endorse sound doctrine. or turn away
your ears from the truth. and be turn
ed to the fables of spiritualists or the
osophists. or other falsehoods of those
who lie in wait to deceive. With these
winds OF falsehood blowing around
you. these pillars and arches testify by
their enduring character that the truth
OF God continues unchanged from age
TO age: call upon you not to be like
him who built his house upon the sand,
but like him who built his house upon
the rock. which neither winds nor
floods were able to overturn. for it
was founded upon the Rock-Jesus
Christ. the same yesterday and today
and forever.
3. This Cathedral stands as a witness
To an unchanging morality. The will
OF God in regard to human conduct,
first written on the human conscience,
was delivered from Mt. Sinai in ten
commandments by the voice OF God
Himself and then inscribed by the
finger of God on two tables OF stone.
Those ten commandments delivered by
the word Of God are not less the rule
of life under the Gospel than they
were under the law. II am not come
to destroy but TO fulfill said our
blessed Lord. His mission was not to
do away with the moral law. but to
teach a fuller and wider application of
IL. For with God lis no variablenass,
neither shadow OF turning" Though
heaven ard earth pass away, His word
shall not pass away. This cathedral,
built in the faith of Him who is the
same yesterday and today and forever.
stands a witness to- the immutable OBJ
legation of the ten commandments. and
every one of them without exception.
No change OF time can relax that obli-
CATION. The laws of States may cease
10 be based upon Divine law. but the
Divine law remains in force. When He
who is the same yesterday and today
and forever has declared the marriage
of divorced persons to be adultery, no
human Legislation can make ii other
wise. Nor again can law or custom
AFTER the ODISdllOH VI lit
sanctity of the Lords day. The rest
of one day in seven is a Godgiven
right to the sons of toll of which caDi-
tai cannot deprive them without sin.
Capitalists who in their greed for
wealth keep their mills running from
midnight on Sunday to midnight on
Saturday need TO be reminded that
they are robbing God of the honor that !
ne demands, and their fellowmen of |
their most sacred rights. They may |
say. we keep the letter of the law; |
our machinery is still for a seventh Of |
the week. But how about the living |
souls who attend to the machinery, |
engineers. sugar boilers and laborers? |
Have they twenty-four hours rest? ]
Are they free to attend to their relig- |
ous duties on the sacred day? If the !
answer to these questions is no then
may this cathedral ever be a witness
to these Islands that their prosperity |
depends on obedience to the will of
God. and though they who transgress
he laws of God in their haste to he
rich may prosper for time. but pres
ntly they will find, to use the language |
If the prophet Haggai to his own gen
grafton. that their dividends are put |
into a bag with holes"
And finally consider that in setting |
apart this cathedral for the worship of
God, we have acted not for ourselves
alone. or for this generation, but for
after generation of the
'aithful who within these walls will |
,ffer their prayers and praises to Him
who is the same yesterday and today
md forever
In the prayer for the whole state OF
,hrist's church. after the words, De
this life in Thy faith and fear"
he following was added: Especially
or Thy servants, King Kamehameha
V and Queen Emma. for whose bene-
actions to Thy church we this day
i've Thee thanks" The Gloria in Ex-
elsis was sung. and the services We're
'rayer said by the bishop.
20 eternal Lord God. who hoIdest all
ouls in life, we beseech Thee to shed
orth upon Thy whole church in Para
Use and on earth the bright beams ~
'hy light and heavenly comfort. and
rant that we. following the good AZ
IMPLIES of those who have served Thee ,
iere and are at rest. may with them
t length enter into Thine intending !
oy. through Jesus Christ our Lord. I
Amen =
ELEVATION OF THE DEAN.
During the evening service the Rev.
|. b. Weymouth. pastor of the church J
I Lahaira. was installed canon of the
'athedral. giving him equal rank with
ne Rev. Canon Kitcat and the Rev.
anon Ault After the regular service
as concluded the bishop installed
lev. Canon Kitcat as dean of the ca .