The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-04-02
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Bishop Nichols commission having
been read, the Bishop said:
Ny Right Reverend Brother:-I hant
to you certified copies of the Presidins
Bishops approval of the action taker
ing the church in the Hawaiian ISL
ands into union with the Protestant
4 Episcopal Church in the United States
of America, and of the acceptance by
the Archbishop of Canterbury of my
resignation of this See.
/ also hand you a list of the clergy
of the Protestant Episcopal Church in
the Hawaiian Islands ministering un-
| der my license in the Diocese now to
become the Missionary District Of Ho-
noiulu, to which is added a list of the
lay readers holding my license.
| / hand also a statement of the real
! estate owned by the corporation of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in the
Hawaiian Islands.
| Advancing to the front of the sane
| tuary. he said in conclusion:
Il now declare that the See of Homo
| lulu is vacant. and all jurisdiction
within the area of the Hawaiian ISL
| ands heretofore exercised by the au-
bury now absolutely ceases and deter
mines by virtue of the instrument I'M
| der His Grace's hand dated JAN 81,
| 1902
When he had finished Bishop Nichols,
who had called upon the diocesan reg
| istrar to read the commission from
Presiding Bishop Thomas March
Clarke, under which he appeared to
take the authority, and act until the
making of other arrangements, took
over the jurisdiction. speaking as fol-
lows:
BISHOP NICHOLS ADDRESS.
Ny Right Reverend and Dear Brother:
In accordance with the resolutions of
the House of Bishops and the terms of
the commission with which have been
empowered by the presiding Bishop, as
already duly presented here, and acting
in his behalf and his substitute quoad
hoe, 1 do formally. under God, receive
at your hands the transfer of the juris-
diction and the property from the Do
cese of Honolulu to the Protestant
Episcopal Church in the United States
of America and to a Missionary Dis
trict of the same constituted this first
day of April, in the year of our Lord
one thousand nine hundred and two, by
the act of the said House of Bishops
and to be known as the Missionary
District of Honolulu of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in the United States
of America.
And further, being instructed by the
Presiding Bishop as aforesaid, do this
day hereby assume authority and juris-
diction as Bishop in charge assigned
to the Missionary District of Honolulu
now created, until such time as
Bishop shall have been elected and
consecrated for said Missionary Dis
trict of Honolulu, or other arrangement
shall have been made by the Senior
Bishop of the Church" And pursuant
to my instructions as Bishop assigned
/ shall on this day of the erection OF
the Missionary District of Honolulu
take steps looking to the due canonical
organization of the convocation OF the
said District, and to all other require
ments for the full organization of the
Missionary District of Honolulu, as
provided in Article VI, Sec. of the
Constitution. and Title 1, Canon ia
Sec. vi. of the Digest of the canons of
the Protestant Episcopal Church OF the
United States of America
In fulfilling the duty and accepting
the charge this day laid upon me IL is
fitting that this unique ceremony to the
unprecedented character of which in
the Anglican Communion you have al
ready on other occasions called atten-
ton. should have some of its features
emphasized. Though in the providence
of God the House of Bishops is to as
semble in fifteen days from this time
with the purpose of electing Bishop
for this See, the Presiding Bishop was
unwilling that an event of so much in
terest should pass without having his
representative present to express ms
sense of the dignity of the event, ana
the warm welcome of the American
Church people to their brethren OF the
clergy and laity in these Islands. Ana
If that representative has mad such an
estimate of the responsibility commit
ted to him, that he could not have I'M
dertaken ii without firm reliance upon
the guidance of God, the Holy Ghost,
and upon the cooperation of all here,
il has been with a realization also or
the privilege it is to meet the clergy
and people of the new Missionary Dis
trict and to convey to them as I do
today the CHEEKY Godspeed of our
whole American Church, which, like
the Nation is in these days of Devil
dering extension, quickening at the
very question, Who is sufficient for
these things?
But IT would be singularly superficial
not to note the tinge of tenderness
which must inevitably mark this Sc
date ceremony. Such a turning point
could not occur without deep sentiment
and sentiment modulated into minor
key 1 am thinking, my dear brother,
of what IL means to you to sunder the
ties OF an episcopate of thirty years,
covering a whole generation. L have
no right TO do more than barely refer
to it, perhaps it is too sacred to. you
for public mention on your part But
others will wish me not to fail to take
note of it. Though so many years your
junior in the Episcopate, perhaps the
fact that / am one of your own order
in the ministry enables me to know as
few can know who have not experience
ed its isolation and its burdens, its
comforts and its upbeariDgs. how real
a part of the Dulce periculum seoul
Deum are those ties of confirmation
and ordination, and the like that grow
up around any extended Episcopate.
1t so happens that those of our Amer
lean Church who have had to do with
the Diocese of Honolulu have all had
far beyond the average length of years
in the Episcopate. The first Bishop of
California. who acted Jointly at the be-
ginning with the Church of England in
calling attention to the need of work
here. rounded nearly two score years
as a Bishop. The first Bishop of Min
nesota. Bishop Whipple, who was once
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