The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-04-02
BISHOP WILLIS RELATIONSHIPS HIS WORK
AND BISHOP NICHOLS ASSUMES CONTROL


, the substitution of the American fol
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 out in effecting
1.-The necessary adaptation of the church
charter, in no way change ANY essen
tial point of doctrine. discipline or wor-
ship" still from constant use even
terms of expression become SO habit
ual that any variation from them as
| the service goes on perhaps gives a
sense of deprivation which it will take
little time to overcome. / only men,
ton it here to express consideration for
ii under all the circumstances of the
transfer. and to state the experience of
many who have told me that while
they first noted it on coming to Cali
fornia from England, they found the
StrangenesS 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
portunity in some lectures to point out
the principal points of revision in the
American prayer book and the reasons
for them
And this leads to another, I could al
most call it touch of pathos, in our
function of the day. AS the other day
1 stood before that heroic statue of
: Kamehameha l, 1 could read into its
2 pOSc. d pSChOtilHS- WltiOdl dl al
knowing the intent of the artist.
could imagine a race reckoning to a
race, an eighteenth reckoning to
twentieth century, a statesman-war-
rior from the Islands of the sea,
with a spear, reckoning to the
captain of our salvation with cross.
Kamehameha 1 did beckon to Vancou-
yer for the teacher of the true God, Of
which Vancouver had nobly told him.
!. But the teacher did not come.
! If that reckoning had been answered
! in 1894, who can tell what the Book
of Common Prayer, what your own
rendering of hymns into that native
tongue might have meant to the Ha-
waiian people in 1902? What it might
have meant to the swarming genera
tons of that people since 1874 swept
from the earth?
/ do not forget the high associations
OF our work in these Islands with that
royal name and with the royalty of
the Hawaiian race; the benefactions
to this cathedral foundation; the trans
lating the Book of Common Prayer into
the native language by Kamehameha
~. revised by yourself; the successfui
reckoning of that same monarch
which brought Bishop Staley and the
mission here; the laying Of the corner
stone OF this cathedral church by ka-
mehameha V; the memorials and l1v-
ing personalities here of other names
nISn anu iInSdSc.
less do / forget the noble and blessed
work of devoted servants of Christ of
other Christian bodies for many years
in these Islands with their rich results
past and present. For all this we may
thank God, but the much reckoning or
the statue as we today pass this JurlS-
diction of this church from one to an
other branch of our great race stands
out before me almost as an arraign-
ment of our common Christianity. for
its lost opportunities of the eighteenth
century-an arraignment which, as we
face the future, should make us tlngle
not so much with shame. which is prof
itless, as with tremor throughout our
whole communion and Christianity to
be up and doing to lose no twentieth
century opportunities for the spread of
the Kingdom of Christ and the winning
of souls He died to save.
And what opportunities there are
abroad for the Church of God! what
opportunities may then not be here ny
the help and mercy of God! Oce2n1ca
for Christ as well as for commerce!
Fellow citizenship with the saints as
well as under the f1agi Civilization by
the cross even more than by the COM
munity of interests, Life of this very
Eastertide incorruptible, for all racial
corruption and decay! These be our
ringing watchwordsi
The gift of this zeal and this spirit
is nothing less than the gift of God |
The united fronting for it is more from
within than from without. we go TO
Gods altar presently to find there as
their truest source the gift of zeal and
the secret of Oneness. 1t is a happy |
incident that the very vessels we use
in the Holy Communion are the pro-
vision of an American communicate |
the memorial of a holy American priest.
DR. James De Koven. That commun-
ion of the altar was before. and IS
above. and will far outlast all annex
atoms and all earthly changes. There |
is no transfer of jurisdiction in that
Chief Bishopric of souls in Jesus Christ
the same yesterday. today and 1or-
ever These lines of dioceses and dis
tricts must be; these civil and ecclesl- |
astical re-adjustments must come from
time to time; but all the histories of
nations between the upper room of the /
eucharist's institution and this altar, !
and all this map-making since, never |
change fealtieS or flags In the one
fellowship of the one Blessed Sacra- |
ment From it let us go away this
morning lifted up to a higher plane of
PRAYER and of action. THAT we may
continue in that holy fellowship and
do all such good work as he has .pre-
pared for us to walk in"
When Bishop Nichols concluded his
address, delivered in most part directly
tC Bishop w HIS, ne TSlOIuSu ~
thrones placed side by side. to find that
the retiring preIate had vacated that
nearest to the altar, which was thus
reserved for him, and the silent ac-
Rnowled gment of the new order caused
some little feeling, especially on the
part of DR.. Kitcat who was for mo-
ment overcome with emotion, and could
nor continue the service until he had
Withdrawn.
After the usual service, Bishop Nlch-
OILS celebrated the Holy Communion. al
most the entire congregation communl-
eating Bishop Nichols was assisted by
Bishop Willis, Canon Ault acting as
epistoler. After the benediction the
congregation quickly dispersed. there
being little mood apparent TO continue
in exchange of comment upon the
events of the morning.
After the clergy had returned to the
robing room Bishop Nichols asked that
all others retire. He then told the rep