Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-05-27
BISHOPS TELL
Church WORK
PreIate Willis Speaks of Re-
ligiouS LaborS In
South Seas.

that remarkable expansion Of church
matters had taken place In ten years.
The report Of Secretary 7. Give Ia.
viCs was most interesting and instruC-
tive, as II gave n most exhaustive aC.
count Of all things in his care.
Mission Plans.
Mr.. Davies told Of the plans now ap.
proved for the erection Of a mission at
kaimuki, which will cost approximate.
ly $4,000. He brought up the question
Of handling of the funds which were
turned over to the local church gov.
eminent by the Anglican church with.
In the past year. upon which the con.
vocation will have to decide. Those
funds amounting 10 about $4,000 have
been Invested in London.
Mr. Davies also outlined plan by
which the cottages AT St. Elizabcth's
mission which are being erected at a
cost of $4,000, borrowed upon mort.
TaGc notes, may he made to pay the
expense Of erection out of the rents.
ON the authority Of Bishop Rcsiar-
lex he announced that sufficient funds
to erect home for graduates of st.
Andrews Prlory and other sclfsup.
porting girls living in Honolulu arc
now at hand and that the former res.
idCnCc of J. f. Morgan on Emma
Square will probably be purchased for
this purpose.
Tho general financial condition Of
the church is most satisfactory accord.
ing to the report.
Whtsundsy.
The services yesterday began at I
n'FlngE In tho fnnrnfptF vii IN nn1.
hratiOn of the communion by the Rev.
w. II. Fcnton-S Smith. This was fol.
lowed by a Hawaiian service AZ 9:l5.
second celebration of the commun.
ion by Bishop RestariCk at II o'clock.
at which time the Bishop delivered an
address to the COnvoCatiOn. At 3
o'clock In the afternoon St. Mary 5
Mission House at MOiliili was dcdiCa.
ted and the program for the day
closed with united service at :
o'clock in the evening, at which Rev.
+. w. Merrill spoke on the American
Indian and Bishop Willis spoke on
Tonga.
The latter said in part:
Your bishop has invited me to ad.
dress you this evening on Tonga with
reference to the work of our own
branch. of the church. But as that
work only began ten years ago when
! went down there in obedience to a
call received, the work that has
been done can be told In a few words
"lf YOU look AT a map of the Pacific
YOU will see that the lSOth degree OF
longitude marks a line of dcmarcation
between two races.
''ln tho hppNignhnra hp Il
ands form a continuous chain. from
New Guinea to BOrnco. so that there
Is nothing very wonderful in a pOpula.
ton reaching these islands. But in
the western hemisphere 1t is differ.
cnt As you voyage now in am ocean
liner between Honolulu and Suva or
Samoa, II is impressive to think of the
endurance and courage and skill Of
tho hardy naviGatOrs who centuries
ago found their way by the stars
across these 2OOO or 5000 miles OF
ocean. This Po'yncslan race Is now
called by ethnOlngists Sawaiori - a
word composed Of 81 for Samoa. wal
for Hawaii and Ori for Maori.
Now a few words on the work OF
the Anglican church in Tonga. It was
in 1877 that the first attempt was
madc 10 bring In the Anglican church
into Tonga. The strange part of the
movement was that the author of II
was not himself minister of the An
EliCan church or even a member of It
though the natives who joined him
were led to believe that he was.
ITO conclude what have to say
let me ask you once again to think OF
those hardy uavigatOrs who first ira
Versed the vast space of the Pacific
Ocean, and pcoplcd the islands Of the
Pacific. Not one of us would endure
for day the discomfort and pcrsccu
ZION to which they must have been
subject for weeks and weeks on those
long voyages"
The Bishops address, together viii
The vivid descriptions of the people
their habits and ways, was a most in
tcresting chapter In the session.
Bishop RESEARCHES charge on tho
opening day of the session at the Ca
thcdral was interesting history. H
told Of the expansion of the churcl
in Hawaii, which virtually came abOu
as told by Bishop Rostarick, as fol
lows:
MS JUUlltt carries us DhCh &c
great names. In these islands no mar
ever gave more solfsacrifClng efforts
or more devoted and arduous service
to the King and the country than Rob
Crt G.. Wyllin. To get the Anglican
Communion founded here he used un
firing efforts, both of his own initia
tive and at the suggestion and coun
sci with King Kamchameha " and
his noble consort Queen Emma. IN
England the jubilee brings before US
the names of WilbeTfOrce, Bishop Of
oxford, Doctor Pussy and the poet
Keeble, all of whom We're most inter
ested In planting the church in Ia
vail
"The annexation of these islands tC
the United States and the forming Of
the islands into Territory led natur
ally to the extension of the jurisdC
ton of the American church to Ha
wall.
when, on April IS, 1902, a telegram
from Cincinnati came to st. Paul's
Rectory in San Diego announcing that
the rector had been elected Bishop OF
Honolulu, the surprise It created can
not be imagined Although living as
tho raptnr did Innkinu ,Vaoturard In ,