The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-15
.ENL AGREEMENT Of The
EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL
Bishop Restarick Makes Forcble Argument
in Favor of the Movement to Garry Out
Original Building Plans.

Bishop Restarick made a forcible plea
at yesterday mornings service in St.
Andrews Cathedral in support oe the
movement to enlarge the Episcopal
cathedral and improve the premises up
on which it stands.
The Bishop took for his text Malachi
3: Bring We all the tithes unto the
storehouse, and prove me now here
with, saith the Lord of Hosts, if l will
not open the windows of heaven aud
pour you out a blessing" The Bishop
said that Malachi tried to arouse
Israel to an understanding of what Civ
ing is in spirit and in truth. He said
there was a deep and wide spiritual
truth lying at the root of all sacrifice,
of all giving. The principle is this:
I There should be in the heart of the
man who believes in God a sense that
all that life is, all that comes to man to
minister to his being, his welfare, his
pleasure or profit, all is from God.
There has ever been an instructive,
natural way of making this acknowI-
edgment. If the spirit exists swfthin,
it must seek outward expression, and
that expression has been found in man
giving back a portion of that which he
has received as an offering, as an ac-
acknowledgement to God. 1t is this prin
cipIe which lies at the root of all wor-
ship, of all offerings.
With this Introduction the Bishop
came to the pith of his subject, as fol-
lows:
And now my dear friends as to the
application of all this here and now.
The right spirit has been shown in the
universal desire to make this cathedral
and it's surroundings what they may
be. This spirit has shown itself in the
dissatisfaction of which many have
spoken to me, as to the condition of
the cathedral grounds. They are not
like your own orderly, well-kept prem
ises, which delight the eye, and in
which to take pride. The outbuildings
as we may call them you would scarce
ly tolerate on your own grounds. The
exterior of the cathedral in it's unfinish-
ed state is ugly and we should not
like our own houses to have such an
unfinished and unattractive appear
ance. There is desire to make all
beautiful because this is a temple of
God. I am devoutly thankful for this
feeling. 1t is right feeling, religious
feeling. I do not have to appeal to you.
You are as anxious as 1 am that ways
and means may be devised to carry
out plans which may be found best
and consultation with skilled men.
I need not go into details as to the
building of this cathedral and it's being
brought to its present state which gives
such excellent promise of what it may
be. There are those present today who
worshipped in the old wooden struc-
ture where the services of the church
were first made known to many. That
building must bring to many most hal
lowed memories as the worship there is i
recalled and the faces of many rise |
before them of those who gathered |
there and We're in a measure prepared |
by that worship for the glorious and |
beautiful worship which they now rem |
der to the Lamb as they now wait for |
us in Paradise. God grant that we may |
meet them and sing praises with them
when we are called hence.
There are those present who have |
seen every step in the building of this |
cathedral, those who saw the first earth /
removed, the first stone laid. Then
came times of alternate hopes and I
fears and seeming end to it all, a !
feeling that the venture was too great
and should be abandoned as impracti-
cable All honor to Bishop. andS illus !,
trious names in Hawaiian history and
to people generally who struggled on !
and hoped on amidst many and great |
All honor to those who kept !,
on until the building grew. until it as ,
sumed the proportions which it now
possesses, and which give promise of t
what it may be and what please God |
it shall BET
Cathedrals, as rule, grow and are !
not finished in one generation. Changes +,
are made at different periods of con- !
struction and even the styles of the !
periods of construction vary, but in the |
end these only contribute to the interest |
and the beauty of the whole. To us |
now comes the task of adding to what |
is, to the work of those who have pre-
ceded US, and we may be thankful that |
what has been done has been done wen. |
appreciate the task which was that |
of our predecessors, I honor them for |
their courage. faith and determination. |
1t was fine thought which those who |
began it had in mind, and we. too. |
am sure, have the thought also, that |
here in these distant islands of the sea, |
here where the east and the west |
meet, here where peoples of diverse |
tongues and races congregate. that here |
temple OF God should be erected and |
should stand as a permanent witness in |
stone of the mother church of the An
glo-Saxon race, as witness of the |
Catholic and Apostolic faith which she |
constantly confesses in the unchanged |
and unchanged Bile creeds.
Here we want. not for utility only. |
but as a witness of our faith, struc- |
ture which shall tell men by all it has
connected with it. that here the mother