The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-20

1S45, when the U. S. s. Brandywine
was in port, the chaplain, the Rev.
Geo. Jones, held service, using the
Prayerbook and preaching, on Sunday
evenings during the ten weeks of his
| stay.
The appreciation of the services aud
the courtesy of Mr.. Damon are men
| toned in the Polynesian. Stin, thers
were those who earnestly desired n res
ident priest of the Church. The editor
of the Polynesian of July IS, 1874, saws
that in eonversing with people who de-
sired Church other than the Bethel,
''they have unanimously expressed
their opinion in favor of selection
from the Episcopal Church, and this
opinion is mainly from those who are
not of that faith themselves, but con-
slider her discipline and doctrine AZ
best calculated to unite community
in which so great diversity of opin-
ions on religious subjects prevails.'
This for the age is a remarkable rec
IGNITION of the breadth and tolerance
of the Episcopal Church.
EFFORTS TO GET EPISCOPAL
CHURCH.
subject is often mentioned. After Mr..
r. c. Wyllie came to Honolulu in 1874
efforts were again made to obtain
clergyman. In January, 1S47, through
the Polynesian, he notified all residents
belonging to the Episcopal Church that
a gentleman, a former resident, would
give $1,000 toward the erection Of a
suitable Church, provided that $4,000
rhoov shaI IN n1,,I,
January %, of the same year, Mr..
Wyllie issued q circular as follows;
''The King has ordered me to aseer-
tain the feeling of the foreign commu-
nifty in regard to the want of an Epis-
copal Church or Chapel and the willing
ness to subscribe for the support. Adj
miral Thomas, so generally known to,
and respected by, the inhabitants, has
kindly offered his good offices toward
procuring a properly qualified clergy
man of that denomination provided he
can depend upon a suitable provision
for his support. Those who are IA
vorable to the project are requested to
subscribe their names, stating the
amount they are willing to pay yearly
for so many sittings, to be transferred
to others if they should leave the Is
lands.
The Polynesian SAYS: 'sIt is not es-
sentiaf that the clergyman should be
an Englishman, nor is it intended that
the Church should have a foreign, ma
tional character.
suppose the plan failed for lack
of support. The discovery of gold in
California led to an exodus from the
Islands, and this, perhaps, affected the
matter.
In 1862, on his twentieth anniver-
sary, the Rev. Mr. Damon in sermon
says that when he returned from a
visit to California in 1852 he found
here ga Rev. Mr.. Smeathman, deacon
of the Episcopal Church, officiating.
The congregation which assembled TO
hear him preach occupied the Mauna
Kilika building
On April 81, 1852, the Argus has the
following: episcopal Church Fund.
We have much pleasure in noticing the
growing interest manifested by the
community in the performance of the
beautiful service of the Liturgy of the
Episcopal Church at Mauna Kilika,
which was rendered still more attrac-
tive on last Sunday by the addition
of an efficient choir of instrumental
and vocal music. ably presided over by
a lady whose kindness in volunteering
her very perfect execution of the fine
music of the service can not be too
highly commended. We are glad to
learn that il will be repeated next Sun
day This is the first mention of
Church choir In connection with this
service. notice of April "a reads:
- Episcopal Church. The committee of
subscribers to the above fund request
meeting at the front rooms of Mr..
lannon's premises, Merchant street,
this day at three p. m. -
Mr.. Damon says of this Mr.. Smeath-
man: 'He preached here for about
six months, but for the want of sufli-
cient encouragement and because OF Ill
health he left for England" During
the ffties a Mr.. Cover, Connecticut
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