The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-01-23
WILLIS MUST
SHOW IN COURT
HIS RIGHT TO DISTURB THE
SECOND CONGREGATION
OF ST. ANDREWS.
AMERICAN BISHOPS ADVISE
AGAINST HIM
The Rev. Alexander Macintosh VIII
Turning out the Congregation.

The Anglican church controversy is
now about to get into the courts, on the
question Of Bishop Willis right to turn
the Second Congregation out of the An
gliCan cathedral. A letter received
/ from Bishop Potter, Of New York, by
the Ventura, will result in injunction
proceedings to prevent the bishop from
taking full control of the church prop
erty and leaving the second congrega-
tion without a church for the balance of
his term here .......
Papers are now being prepared for
the proposed suit, and no time will be
lost. The letter from the America
bishop, one of the heads of the EpiscO-
pal church i'm America and one of the
most prominent men in the church. is
decidedly against the stand taken by
the Bishop here. He expresses the view
that the status quo should have been
undisturbed here, until the arrival of
the American bishop who is to succeed
Willis. This was the understanding at
the assemblage in San Francisco when
Bishop Willis offered his resignation
and the church in Hawaii was formally
taken over as a part of the Protestant
Episcopal church of America. The at
tempt of the retiring bishop to change
things, resulting i'm the practical turn
ing out of the entire second cOngrega-
tion and the Rev. Alexander Mackin-
tOsh, was not satisfactory to the Anne
riCan bishops.
The letter expressing Bishop Potter's
views was sent to the Rev. Alexander
Macintosh who will take the lead in
the legal proceedings that will be COM
menCed.
The members Of the Second Congrega-
tion do not propose to be deprived OF
their church for the services tn day af-
ter tomorrow, and Bishop Willis will be
served with an order of court this aft
lernoon or tomorrow morning if such an
! order can be secured, restraining him
at least temporarily from interfering
with the second congregation.
The Rev Alexander Macintosh said
today that he would act quickly, i'm or
der that the congregation might wor-
| ship i'm the church as usual next Sun
day. I'VE only want to main tain the
/ right we have purchased he said.
! "The action of the bishop is so clearly
wrong, uepriVing our whole cOngrega-
| tion of it's rights, that the American
| bishops all side against him. and even
| the archbishop of Canterbury is Op-
posed to his course. If we were in the
wrong this surely would not be.
| THE action as regards myself is
/ quite clearly opposed to every rule OF
the church The idea that after long
/ service a man can be simply turned out
| without notice Is utterly foreign TO our
! system. Why, if 1t We're for some crime
that he wanted to depuse me, six
] llpulIS nblltt MDulN ne necessary.
I'VE do not want any aorimony. nO~
any further trouble, but our congrega-
tion must be permitted to worship asa
i'm its own way. There seems to be no
other remedy than recourse TO the
courts, and so we shaI begin at once
to invoke their aid.
1T is an act Of vindi.tivenass. con-
tinued the minister "whch ! am in
formed some, even the bishops sup
porters have disapproved. We asked
nothing more than that matters be not
! disturbed, and that we be allowed to
continue the services we have held for
years. As it could not be peaceably,
we must make the best of it and go into
court"
Bishop Potter is not the only Ameri-
| can bishop who has advised the mem-
| bers Dt he Second congregation that
| thoat ,hair position i'm the Anglican
/ cathcdigl should not be disturbed.
| OthcIs have expressed themselves 70
! similar Effect The attempt to take
away ''n minister's license OF the Rev.
! AleNgr f.r Macintosh is also very ad-
versedly commented upon on the Main
! land.