The Hawaiian gazette., 1877-04-18
WEDNESDAY. APRIL Is, 1877.
missionaries for Micronesia.
TWO SPRINGFIELD PEOPLE APPoINrEp BY Tnl
AMERICAN BOARD TO co TO THE
MARSHALL ISLANDS.

MARSHALL ISLANDS.
The prudential committee (says Springfield
paperl OF the American board has appointed
nr Edmund NJ Pease and Miss Hattie A.
S,Grtevant OF this cily, the former missionary
physician and the latter as assistant missionary,
TO Join the Micronesian mission the coming sum
mer. They will sail from Honolulu III the ans
sionary brig Morning Star on the LIST OF July,
aud viii start on their way 10 Honolulu as soon
as the necessary arrangements can he made. one
Of the preminaries beng as their friends are
well aware. a change OF name on the part Of
Miss Sturievant- The board congatulates IL
self upor this accession Of strength to the Micro
nesisn mission, aud in that generalization the
friends Of the appointees most heartily Join,
although their fluctuations for the board and its
work mingled with sharp personal regrets
tor themselves But If the missionary work Is
worth carrying on al all il is worth making sac.
rdces for. and the missionary laborers will
have hearty speeding on their way TO their
distant island home in the Pacific from their I'M
mediate friends and from the whole Christian
public OF Springfield as well.
DR.. Pesse has been praciicing physician in
this city since 1869, and il is little singular
that his appointment nov missionary physi-
clan is an extra carrying out of the plan under
which his collegiate and professional studies
we're pursued, but which was laid aside after
graduation By the force OF circumstances beyond
his control. He Is q native OF Cranky. and is
graduate Of Amherst College. and Union theu-
logical seminary, New York, aud also Of one of
the New York medical colleges his theological
and medical studies being pursued, as has been
mentioned. with the explicit purpose Of fitting
himself for just the work 10 which be is noN APP
pointed. After leaving college he spent some
months as tutor ST Amherst, and rs teacher Of q
boys school at Baltimore. 10 1862 be went TO
the as assistant surgeon Of the Sixteenth
Connecticut volunteers and he served in that
capacity, as surgeon Of the Ninth United States
eolored troops, 10 the hospital at Frederick.
Nd, Snd on staff duty until his discharge at the
close OF 1866. He is the first missionary ply
sician appointed for Micronesia, aud one depart
ment Of his work will be ;be training and pre-
p2ratiOu Of native physicians for the various
islands 10 that vicinity Miss Sturievant is
pleasantly known TO every freQuenter to the city
library, where she has been since September
1874, and where she has rendered enthusiastic
and helpful serFice alike to the library aud to is
patrons. She vill be very much missed by those
with whom she has been associated in library
service aud by the library using public. She is
native of Mesiport, y. Y near Plattsburg.
and is graduate Of North Granville, " Y,
seminary. She came TO Springfield. however,
from Bordentown. y. j.. where her family now
reside. For some time before coming here she
had been engaged in teaching, and her special
department Of labor will be teaching in the Train
ing school. which has been established on the
Island 10 which she goes and holding religious
meetings and Conversations with the native
women.
The Nicronesiau mission embraces three
groups Of Islands 10 the Pacific ocean. which are
-
groups. Missionaries are now resident On one
island in each Of these groups, Pouape il the
Caroline, EbOn II the Marshal, and Apsiaug 10
the Gilbert Islands, and It is at Ebon that oar
Springfield friends are 10 make their home.
Ebon is s small island Of coral formation. With a
lagoon IN the centre snd s channel Leading to
The SEES. The island Is FIVE miles long and has 4
population Of about 200, bat, as has been init
mated, The work Is By no means confined 10 that
island. but includes the whole group. The
si,usti0n Of Ebon is 5000 miles Southwest of
San Francisco. the Sandwich Islands being the
halfway station between San Francisco and
Micronesia il is about four degrees north Of
the equator snd about 10 degrees Of longitude
east Of Greenwich. The temperature holds
pretty steadily st about S. degrees and very
rarel! above 80. The natural products are
breed fruit, bananas, cOcoauuIS and figs The
language Is simple sad easy Of acquisition. and
DIR. Clark. the senior secretary OF the poard,
describes II s. one Of the easiest to master in
the whole range Of the boards operations The
MIcronesi2n mission WIS started IN 1852. the
first missionaries who went there being Revs.
Lniher Quick. b. q. Snow, and a. a. Siurges
with tier wives. Mr.. Snow located ST Ebon
10 ISL Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Whitney went to
re!aforce Mr.. Snow, going from Westport. y.
u The friendship existing between Ms Whit
ana h.
which they have maintained have nov led TO
this second reinforcement Mr.. Snow was some
months ago obliged to give Up his work tenn
porsrlly, 81 least, on account Of Parasitic
shock. and be and his wife are now on their
way from Sso Francisco 10 their Maine home.
The renoteness and isolation of Mieronesis
makes II sll the more heroic and self sacrificing
10 volunteer for service there. The only sure
communication they have with the outside world
i lie yearly calls Of the missionary brig Morn
ing Star, which starts from Hcnolulu aud carries
mails and supplies 10 the various Pacific island
stations, whole ye2r being consumed in the
outward and return voyages The idea Of q
yearly msii Is novelty 10 people Of this latitude
Eiihont hour! mails ard the telegraph to sup
pleueOt them. but the dNeIers At Ebou Hiu
not have their affection distracted from their
WORK b! PTesiSeCtisl eoaBls and cabinet dis
cu>SioDs- Steamers leave San Francisco. how
ever, once month. aud ofientimes letters nav
be sent from Honolulu by trading vessels Instead
OF waiting for the Morning Stars annual trip
iset which Miss SlurteFant wishes her friends
especially 10 remember and be governed bT.
Dr. Pesse and Mss Siurteyant are members of
the First Church. where they have each taken
prominent and responsible positions in Church
and SSssiay-school work. The former has long
hsd large sduli clzss, and the latter has for
hearty tSo years rendered yairzble and Efficient
ssryioe IN The primary department Tle5 viii
De very much missed from their accustomed
places there, aud they VII Be foilozei to their
Few fed with much tender sympathy.