The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-08-16
From the Churchman.)

WIEN King Kamehameha ". OF
II w Hawaii translated the English
Book of Common Prayer into his
native language, he felicitously turned the
I.Dearly beloved brethren into e ma hoa-
|hanau aloha, and aloha is the. most
ibrotherly word in the Hawaiian tongue
lit EXPIRE sses all the fond sentiment of our
English greetings and good-bys 1t is as
fun of warmth and sunshine as a typical
Honolulu day, and carries with it an at
mosphere as genial and gladstone as the
sparkling waters and tropical skies Of the
islands can make it. Such word GER
itainly the American Church can well ap-
nropriate 10 welcome to its brotherhood
| the new Missionary District of Honolulu,
| duly erected on April 1, 1902
The simple ceremony of transfer fol-
lowed Morning Prayer and preceded a
celebration of the Holy Communion in
the Cathedral Church of St. Andrew. Ho-
nolulu Bishop Willis conveyed the juris-
diction to the Presiding Bishop through
a representative of the latter. The See has
| been in existence almost exactly forty
,ears frs+ hearing the title 1.-The Hawai-
| ian reformed Catholic Church" and later
| ..The Anglican Church in Hawaii. Inc
first bishop-Bishop Staley, was cohse-
lcrate6i in 1862 his episcopate lasting aOou.
eight years, until 1910. AFTER an ~, =
| of two years Bishop Willis was consecrat-
! ed to succeed him and his Jurlsolctloil
covered a period of thirty years, three
| fourths of the whole age OF the see
! Forty years in the Scriptures Is Aor tn
most part period of trial and tr1bulauoi'
and the Church in Hawaii and those VINO
have had to do with it, have no ooupt
had to wear the yoke of diocesan youth.
| But there are some rare, not 10 say vi
| -racented facts connected with the begin
ninrs of the Church in the Hawaiian Isl
.nds Bishop Samuel Wilberforce IN lso1
wrote the preface to Consul Genera Man
llav HOPKINS most interesting oooh on
tJaUas Ito which this article Is ihus1'SN
for SINE of its data) and in II salu: ger
li,o,,s nf all others, the religious history OF
tho Deople is the strangest- ne IN.
. ! .rers to remarkable event OF IeIS-@e
Hong antedating the coming OF the Eng,
l,et1 church The sudden Abandonment
lof their whole heather mytholosE'
lond the entire destruction OF tneir I"Ol
@tord almost alone in the history VI
ne then notes what in pupilo
,.at;pe he had even more CmphaslZeu
Tho seeking by King Kameiialneha
40 plant among his people WIN. an ~, ~,
l.dvantages which can be oerlN. I'm -
own adhesion to IT, the hLsI,-H - $50 81
THE appeaI was formally made IN io's-uo
- With the promise Of land ana d SUI
.,t.u support for the Church This lea
las we have already seen, to the consecI . :.
ton and sending out OF Bis , So, r,srlx
1ee9 which date may be taken as mars
SO the opening of the history with whicf
we are now Immediately concerned.
Added to the fact then that tn e., 0hp n
.-as asked for and fostered by KING IA
Imehameha ". and Queen Erllll't - -,
notable that the Prayer Book Will a.. -,
H. had translated into the native
! N,,t5 had preface. or rather epilogue
FOR it was written at the end OF the o0 70,
written by the king, when SHOWS III
study of the best PRAYER BOOK COMM nil. II !,
$50 or the time It has been SAID o
, a. .s11be catholic faith as taught in I'M
G 1I,1 of England in its integrity seem seem,
"a - meet fully. the cravings OF his soui