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

would use now. It was published IN
San Francisco paper.
There was no doubt lack of tact on
the part of the Anglieans and failure
to recognize conditions. There was al
so as it appeared to the missionaries an
irritating air of superiority with them
which ranked in the hearts of the
Americans 1t was an age when Pro-
testant Christians in the United States
heartily disliked the Episcopal Church,
and as rule considered its adherents
as unsaved worldlings, largely because
Churehmen did things which they them
selves do now without thought or
wrong. This was repaid with kind
of contempt by the Churchmen. Both
sides were narrow and both sides We're
to blame.
The cathedral parish register of these
wears as indeed since is most interest
ing and unique with its record Of rites
administered to Kings, Queens and
Princes. The first entry is the baptism
of Queen Emma, October q, 1862 The
first confrmations are those of the King
and Queen. of Mr. R. c. Wylie. the
Hon G. NJ. Robertson and Attorney
General Harris. At the next eonirma'
ton in December the first name entered
rs David Kalakaua. The Bishop found
ed schools at Lahaina and Wailuku and
in 1867 st. Alban s College, afterwards
Iolani was founded in Honolulu. st.
Andrews Priory was established large
" through the interest and efforts of
Queen Emma in 1867. The same year
the corner stone of this cathedral build.
ing was laid. It was to be erected in
memory of Kamehameha ", whose
death in 1864 had been a great blow to
the mission. In 1865 Bishop Staley
went to the United States to the gen.
eral convention with letter from the
King asking for aid The Board of
Missions pledged the salary of two
clergymen. One of these was the Rev.
Geo. B. Whipple, brother of Bishop of
Minnesota.
With all the troubles of this PERIOD
the Church had a great deal of infiu-
ence direct and indirect. The Gazette
of Jan. /, 1868, says that Christmas
was made holiday in 1863 On April
IL, 1868, it says that Good Friday was
observed by the closing of government
offices. 1t says: "This is strange to
large portion of our people. Then it
adds: Easter Sunday, even in Protest
ant churches is sometimes made the oc,
casion for appropriate exercises.
Things have changed with our Christian
brethren since that day. They vie with
us in keeping the great holy days and
other observanees which they once dis
pissed In fact the trend is all one way;
they are returning to the paths of the
old Church in ideas. in worship, in archi-
-.
and in Observance of holy days. They
have gone so far that sometimes the
Mother Church wonders that they don t
go farther and come home.
In 1870. Bishop Staley resigned, find
ing himself unable to get the financial
aid necessary to carry on the work. 1t
was then that the Archbishop of Can.
terbury urged Bishop Whipple to take
the diocese. IF he had done this the
history of the next thirty years would
have been very different. Bishop Whip
pie had the interest aud confidence of
some of the richest men in the church.
BISHOP WILLIS COMES.
Tt was thought at this time that no
other Bishop would be sent and the mis-.
sion was in sad straits. In 1872 Bishop
Willis arrived on the scene I shall
not go into details as to this period.
But | can say this, that he was hamper.
ed by English preeedents which he
considered himself bound to follow.
Bishop Selwyn cut himself loose from
things not fundamental and after a
few years in New Zealand said: 'smany
things adopted here are not according
to English rule, but in accordance with
common sense"
The ideas of the great Selwyn as to
the Office of Bishop are worthy of note
IN his address to the first general
Synod: Il believe the MonarchicaI idea
OF the Episcopate to be as foreign to
the true mind of the church as it is
adverse to the gospel doctrine of hui
m1lity. You laity must recognize a
joint interest in the office of Bishop.
looking upon him as your agent and
instrument to carry into effect what
you know to be right and wish to do.
but which you could not accomplish of
yourself" The Bishop cannot delegate
his power of action. but ne may guard
against arbitrary and i'll advised acts
by having as in the American sys-
tenn "a council with a salutary power
of control. Tt is better not to act at
all than to act against the declared
opinion of those who are conformity in
terested in the plan, and mainly re-
sponsible for the execution of it"
These words of the great Colonial
Bishop exactly express my own ideas,
and Furthermore the carrying out of
these ideas is practically insured by the
Constitution and Canons Of the Amer
lean Church which safeguard the right
OF the clergy and laity. the Parish and
Diocese. AS Bishop Willis said to me
in letter: You have body Of laws
to fall back upon which I had not"
This is very true and explains much.
I wish to say here that if it had not
been for Bishop Willis this Cathedral
as ii is would in all probiHty not be
here. The cut stone from England lay
on the ground for years. Some strongly
advised selling it to a church in British
Columbia which needed materiai of the
kind. Two laymen, Henry May and c.
6 Harris, went before the Hawaiian
Committee in London and said that
stone church was out of the question,
that q plain brick r1z1rpF- yr-a all that