The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-01-01
JAMES
COMES BACK AGAIN
REPLIES TO BISHOP RESTA-
RICK'S LETTER IN REGARD TO
ENGLISH CHURCH.

To the Right Rev. Bishop Restarick.
Dear Sir: I am glad to see your re-
joinder in todays Advertiser because,
certainly some of the Honolulu people
that read our correspondence, will be
benefited by it.
Allow me to take exceptions to the
reasoning your letter offers to the
term Church of England" you seem
to apply one notion, and another and
so we disagree. According to you it
existed, lived and acted long ago. But
my notion is that it came into exist
ence by Henry VIII and his parlia-
ment. Let us examine and find out
the true notion of the thing. History
teaches that there has been indeed
church Of England from the time Pope
st. Gregory sent st. Augustin and his
companions to evangelize the British
Isles. But 1 say this was different
thing from the Church of England
which came into the world in 1884.
Those who wish to have an exact and
true notion Of the church must go back
to it's founder There alone they can
find the real outlines, the form and the
constitution of it. Christ is it's found
err. He established it by choosing,
educating and empowering the apostles
and their helpers (the y disciples)I
sending them out in the whole
world to teach, to govern and to sane
tifv those who would choose to accept
the faith. For their own encourage
ment as well as for the reliance in
them of the faithful ne promises to be
! himself as well as the Holy Ghost with
! them for all times even unto the end
of the world. To assure their unity of
action Christ made st. Peter the leader
the president, the head man of the
! whole undertaking. By the will of
! Christ the church is monarchial in it's
| form. All the power and authority was
! to be transmitted from the head down
J to the members and not vice-verSa. The
! Apostles under their visible head, St.
! Peter, were to live and fulfill their Of
! flee in and by their successors to the
| end of time Their commission eX-
| tended to all nations This makes it
| as clear as noon light, that in the di-
vine plan of the church, it's ministers
/ had to receive no commission or re-
visal of commission neither from kings
nor from their subjects be they Eng
!
nationality, not even of those who
had been lawfully appointed to legis-
| late, as such power could never extend
farther than the authority of those
who commissioned such hur2an legis-
| lators.
Such being the notion of the true
| church, let us come to the term Church
of England
Previous to the so-called Reforma-
ton it was as much as the Church of
Spain, France, Portugal and other
countries a part and members of the
| one, holy catholic, apostolic church, it
was in living communication with the
whole and healthy organism Of the
church.
If there have ever been, as you seem
to believe English or other legislators
trying to make laws in church matters,
then we have to say this: either they
were commissioned by the Suprme au-
thority of the church for the matter
or the proposed law has been since ra-
titled by the church If not it was and
is null and void as those who tr'I d to
make it, overreached themselves.
Now this church of England has
been reformed" out of xistence by
King Henry VIII and his legislative
assembly, because they gave it a new
organization. With help of the civil
power they decreed themselves into a
spiritual power which for all the be-
levers in Christ for those who admit
him to be the son of God, who admit
that he was able and willing to keep
his church indestructibe according to
his word-has no more effect in reality
than my word would have if l did ap-
point you the emperor of China.
Now, dear sir, you understand what
I mean by Church of England l mean
that Church which recognizes the
King as its supreme head, empowered
to appoint and reject bishops and
regulate directly or indirectly any &C.
clesiastical matter. This power never
came from Christ, never has been
found in England before 1884, and it
was the work of the English Parlia-
ment. Therefore, I am sorry TO SAY
on account of the disgust you may
have with unsavory King Henry VIII.
He is the founder of the Church Of
England, the Church established by
law.
I maintain also that divorce is the
right word because there was a true
marriage Notwithstanding his wife be-
ing his brothers widow, the impede
ment of affinity being of such of which
the Pope Is able to dispense with, and