The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-01-13
BROKE AGREEMENTS
Made Certain Arrangements with Sec
ond Congregation and Has Not Lived
Up to Them

A talk with a prominent member of
the Second Congregation closely con-
nected with its finances disClOses some
phases of the controversy between that
BODY and bishop Willis that have not
been widely exploited outside the con-
greEatiOn itself.
In the first place" said the church
member, when the Bishop gave license
to the Second Congregation TO remain
as an entity he was not giving them
permission to worship in the cathedral
church, they had done so as a body
long before Bishop Willis came here as
a missionary bishop The congrega-
ton and MIR. Macintosh were both in
stalled before he came. After his ar
rival he made certain agreements with
the congregation which his arbitrary
cutting off at the present time causes
him to break faith with one Of these
was of a financial nature and morally
speaking the Bishop is responsible for
certain amount of money due Mr.
Macintosh and others under agree
ments that he himself ratified.
These were, first that the time of
! service of the second congregation
/ could only be altered afte~ three
months notice had been given. We
have received no such notice. The
! other agreement was that the incum-
/ bent clergyman of the second congre-
cation should, upon losing his incum-
| bency receive six months notice or in
| lieu of that, six months stipend. Now
| this amount coupled with other eX-
! penses brought unexpectedly to a head
! by the peremptory shutting off of the
/ second congregation and its regular
| sources of revenue amount to some
! $1,000 for which il seems to me, the
bishop is morally responsible he having
himself violated the agreements that
he made and having forced the pre-
| clusiOn of six months notice to our re-
! firing incumbent
THE three months notice of change
of time was the only control that the
bishop agreed to over the movements
! of the second congregation which was
an established and fiourishing body
| before his lOrdship came to minister to
! the heather. 1t is curious in regard TO
! the latter mission to notice the dis
crepancies between the reports of one
of the Bishops most ardent supporters
and himself regarding the results ac-
complished.
The member of the Bishops congre-
cation, in a report sent to church
periodical states that the best work OF
the Bishop has been accomplished
! among the Chinese who are self sup
porting. The Bishop states to the Am
! erican church that his Chinese are
!
so represented that arrangements were
started to send money down here for
their particular branch of mission
work.. AS far as the Chinese connect
ed with the Anglican church are con-
cerned, their contributions, some $500
last time, have been perfectly SUFFICIENT
to cover their expenses.
THE presence of the Chinese church
in the cathedral grounds brings remem-
brance of the permission grudgingly
accorded the second congregation to
establish separately two miles away
from the cathedral while the Chinese
are allowed ground in the cathedral
close. | fail myself to see why there
should not be an Anglican church al
lowed to flourish here for British sub
| jects apart from the American church
although of course the two churches
are practically one in the ritual and
| form of worship aside from the differ
ence in some Of the prayers relating
| TO eminent persOnages. The Germans
retain their own services, Swedes, Nor
mons and followers of other creeds and
nationalities are freely established and
| allowed. Why should not then the
Anglican church be allowed to live and
! flourish separately as it did long before
Bishop Willis arrived as missionary
| Bishop to the Sandwich islands,