The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-27

4 ten years, since the Anglican church
in Hawaii was taken over by the
American church. The report show
ed that during these ten years, the
number of clergy in the islands had
increased one hundred and fifty per
cent, the number of parishes and
! missions one hundred and fifty per
cent, communicates four hundred per
cent, Sunday school pupils three hun
dred per cent and the annual offer
ing had increased from $685. to more
than $4,000 In this period 1871 have
been baptized, 975 have been confirm
ed and $4,000 has been raised for
the support and expansion of the
church in the islands. Last year the
increase in the number of commune
cants to the Episcopalian church in
Hawaii was ten per cent, which is
seven per cent above the average on
the mainland.
Robert Cation presented the report
of the committee of finances dealing
first with the increase in church funds
during the year. The trust endow-
ment fund has increased $40, 7S4.OS,
and church property has increased
$69, 4O9.93. The assets and liabilities
Of the church corporation in Hawaii
UP to date balance at s504,31760.
Interesting Sunday Services.
Yesterday, Whitsunday, was full of
events in connection with the convo-
cation. At a. m. there was cele-
bration of the holy communion the
Rev. w. H. Fenton-Smith, celebrant;
the Rev. J. K. Bodel, epistoler; the
Rev. w. S. Short, gospeler. At 9:15
the Rt. Rev. Alfred Willis, D. D., cele-
b-ated the holy communion and
preached before the Hawaiian congre-
cation. At II a. m. the Rt Rev the
Rishop of Honolulu celebrated the HOLY
communion and delivered his annual
address. The Rev. Canon Potwine
was epistoler and the Rev. D. D. Wal
lace gospeler. Bishop Restarick, in
opening his address, gave the follow
ing interesting bits of the local
church's history:
This jubilee carries us back to
great names. In these Islands no man
ever gave more self-sacrifcing efforts
or more devoted and arduous service
to the King and the country, than
Robert G. Wyllie. To get the Angli-
can Communion founded here, he
used untiring efforts, both of his own
initiative and at the suggestion and
on counsel with King Kamehameha
" and his noble Consort Queen
Emma. In England the jubilee brings
before us the names of Wilberforce,
Bishop of Oxford, Doctor Pusey and
the poet Keeble, all of whom were
most interested in planting the
Church in Hawaii
"The annexation of these Islands
to the United States and the forming
Of the Islands into a Territory, led
naturally to the extension Of the iurfs-
diction Of the American Church to
Hawaii.
when, on April 1s, 1902, a tele-
gram from Cincinnati came to st.
Pauls Rectory in San Diego announc-
ing that the rector had been elected
Bishop Of Honolulu, the surprise it
created can not be imagined. AT
though living as the rector did, look
ing westward into the Pacific Ocean,
he had no idea of the Hawaiian Isl.
ands. their history or conditions. An
interview with the Bishop of Califor-
Eia, and the information that Bishop
Potter Of New York, and Bishop Sat
terlee Of Washington had advocated
the election and that he had been
elected on the first ballot, a most I'm.
usual occurrence, all this led him TO
relieve that the leading of the Holy