The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-04-03
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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 out in effecting
the necessary adaptation of the
church charter, in no way change amy
essential point of doctrine, discipline
or worship" still, from constant use,
even terms of expression become so
habitual 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
mention it here to express considera-
ton for it under all the circumstances
of the transfer, and TO state the ex-
perience of many who have told me
that while they first noted it on com
ing to California from England, they
and indeed in many cases they learned
especially to like the American book
1t is my hope while in Honolulu to
have the opportunity 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, could
almost call it touch of pathos, in our
function of the day. AS the other day
/ stood before that heroic statue OF
Kamehameha l, could read into it's
pose beckoning. Without at all
knowing the intent of the artist,
could imagine a race reckoning to
race, an eighteenth century reckoning
to a twentieth century, statesman
warrior from the Islands of the Sea,
reckoning to the Captain of our sal
walton with cross Kamehameha
did beckon to Vancouver for the teach
err of the true God, of which Vancou.
yer had nobly told him. But the
teacher did not come.
If that reckoning had been answer
ed 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 1t might
have meant to the swarming genera
tions of that people since 1894 swept
e.o,,. tho oarth7
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 foundations; the
translating the Book of Common
Prayer into the native language by
Kamehameha ", revised by yourself;
the successful reckoning of that same
monarch which brought Bishop Staley
and the mission here the laying of
the cornerstone of this Cathedral
church by Kamehameha V; the me-
MORALS and living personalities here
of other names of high authority and
lineage Much less do forget the
noble and blessed work of devoted
servants OF Christ of other Christian
bodies for many years in these Is
lands with their rich results past and
present. For all this we may. thank
God. but the mute reckoning of the
statue as we today pass this jurisdic-
tion 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
it's lost opportunities of the eighteenth
century-an arraignment which as we
face the future should make us tingle
not so much with shame, which is
profitless, as with a tremor through
out our whole communion and Christ
ianity 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 there not be here
by the help and mercy of God! Gee
anica for Christ as well as for com
mercel Fellow citizenship with the
saints as well as under the flag Civ
ilization by the cross even more than
by the community Of interesTai I ifa
of this very Eastertide incorruptible,