The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-09

| Bishop Restarick has sent the follow
| ing letter to Episcopalians in Hawaii:
To the Church People in the Mission
airy Jurisdiction of Honolulu:
| My Dear Friends:-I expect to be
eonsecrated bishop of the church of
| God Cd. w early in July. The service
| will take place in my own parish
church, so dear to me by many sacred
associations. As soon as the date is
positively known I will see that it is
made public in the Hawaiian Islands.
| You may imagine that this call OF
| the church to go to Honolulu has been
extremely hard for me and for my peo-
| pie, because obeying il uecessitated the
severance of ties made precious by
| deep affection and long and intimate
| association. Yet there has never been
on the part of my people any voice but
| one. and that has said, you must obey,
you must CO..
| When I sought for indications of the
call OF the Holy Spirit (the Vicar of
Christ dwelling in and guiding His
church), the fact that in st. Andrews
sions We're made on the day on which
| the House of Bishops met in Cincinna-
| ii, coupled with the fact of a remark
able unanimity shown by the bishops
on the first ballot, these had no small
influence in determining me to accept
| the election.
From the moment that 1 decided
cheerfully and hopefully to obey the
call OF God through the church, 1 have
learned to look forward with increas-
ing pleasure and interest TO the work
which lies before me. What was before
a group of islands two thousand miles
to the westward where had many
friends. is now a territory full of at
fractions. Difficulties I expect, know
OF no work without them. I have al
ways had them before me. and they
have served not to deter, but to deter
mine me to stronger effort.
I am sure there is a large work to do
for Christ and His church in the Ha-
waiian Islands, and I am sure that 1
shall find clergy and laity ready to
work with me for the upbuiiding of the
Kingdom of God in the Missionary Jul
risdiction of Honolulu.
I have received many messages of
greeting from the Islands since my
election and I believe that they have
all contained the beautiful word Aloha
want the meaning of that word to be
the key note to which the hearts of all
churchmen in the Jurisdiction of Homo
lulu shall be attuned.
I attended a lecture not long since
given by Mr.. H. p. Wood, known, I am
sure. to many who read this letter. The
subject of the lecture was the Hawaii
an Islands, and it was illustrated by
stereopticon views. The first word cast
on the sheet was aloha, the last word
was pau. Let the latter be taken first.
Pau, the past is past, for me in San
Diego. for you in the Hawaiian Islands.
We are to begin a new era, new work
for me, new relationship for you. Let
the first word, aloha, be the prophetic |
motto OF our loving trust and conf !
dence in each other, and in the future |
of the church.
ask for your prayers, especially on |
the day of my conservation.
And now commencing you to God |
the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and
hoping to meet you soon face to face.
Faithfully yours in Christ and His
Church,
HENRY BOND RESTARTCK,
Bishop-eIect of Honolulu.
ST. Paul's Rectory. San Diego, Calf,
June a. 1902