The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-04-04
Ceremonies Which Mark the Transfer of the
jurisdiction Of the Episcopal Church
In Hawaii.

/ thc Nation. ls in these DAYS ~ bewii-
d"flng extension. uuicktuing az the
very question. Who Ia sufficient Tor
/ these thirrs9
iiut SO would b. slnru'arit superficial
not 60 note the tinge ~ tenderness.
which must Inevitably mark this So
date ceremony such a turning point
could not occur without deep sentiment
and sentiment modulatCd into minor
key I am thinking. my dear brother.
of what 10 means to you to sunder the
ties Of en- cpiscopate OF thirty years.
covering whole generation. | have
no right to do more than barely refer
To It, perhaps Il is too sacred To you
for public mention on your part But
others will wish me not to fail to take
! note OF H. Though so many years your
! junior in the Episcopate perhaps the
| fact that | am one OF your own order
I'm the ministry enables me to know as
| few can know who have not experience
ed its Isolation and it's burdens its
comforts and its upbearings. how real
n part OF the Dulce periculum seoul
| Dcum 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 year.
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 Bishop. The first Bishop OF Min
nesota, Bishop whipple. who was once
invited to this See had an Episcopate
OF forty years and the present Presid-
ing Bishop is now in the forty-eighth
year OF his Episcopate. And Bishop
| Kip. the American Bishop associated
with the initiation OF the work here.
was a college classmate OF Bishop
Clc}k, who now, as Presiding Bishop
initiates the new chapter OF the history
OF the See. Their Episcopates have
been nearly contemporary with the
. forty years OF the Anglican period OF
the See, three-fourths OF which your
own Episcopate has covered. and the
address made to you by the last Synod
of the Anglican Church in Hawaii has
dealt more felicitously and intelligently
than ! could hope to do upon some of
the noteworthy acts Of your last
three out of four full decades OF the
existence of the See.
1t would be strange, too, II to some
the substitution of the American for
the English prayer book some weeks
since made. had not its appreciable
wrench of old and tried associations.
The mutatis mutandis are slight and
as you have pointed cut In effecting
the necessary adaptatior of the church
charter, in nc way change ANY essen
tal point of doctrine. discipline or wor-
ship" sim from constant use even
tel inns OF expression become so habit
ual II t airy variation from them as
the service goes on perhaps gives a
sen of deprivation which ii will take
a Little time to overcome. | only mem
ton II here to express consideration for
1t under ell the circumstances of the
transfer, and to state the experience of
many who have told me that while
they first noted 1t on coming to Cali
fornla from England, they found the
strangsness soon wore off and indeed
in many cases they learned especially
to like the American book 1t is my
hope while in Honolulu to have the OPP
POI unity in some lectures to point out
the principal points of revision i'm the
American prayer book and the reasons
for them.
And this leads to another, I could al
most call 1t touch of pathuu, I'm our
function of the day AS the other day
l stood before that heroic statue of
Kamehameha /, | could read into it's
pose a reckoning. Without at all
knowing the intent OF the artist, l
could imagine a race reckoning to a
race, an eighteenth reckoning. to q
twentieth century statesman war
yer for the teacher of the true God, of
which Vancouver had nobly told him.
But the teacher did not come.