The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-04-19
Bargains in EmbTOidGrieS,
The Aroade-EGAN & co.
RETURN OF MRS. LOGAN.


rived in port yesterday morning,
was Mrs. Logan with her children,
Arthur and Beulah. They expect to
take the Australia, May s, TO return
to the States. 1t is an irreparable
loss to the mission work in Microne-
STA. No other man can do the work
Mr.. Logan was doing at the time of
his death. The trader, living on
Ruk, who knows what Mr.. Logan
was doing, says, that if the Mission
airy Society wants that work done,
they must send out four men at
least. Mr.. Logan was a frail man,
but intensely in earnest though
very quiet in all his methods. He
had that common-sense practically
which is so uncommon. Some of
his methods for interesting, instruct
ing and elevating the natives show
how much of his remarkable sue
cess was due to an unusual share of
mother wit. The natives had come
to look on him as father and Keen
" feel his loss. Even the little dog
he took with him from Honolulu,
though he did not like dogs, was
so warmly attached to him, as to
pine away and die from grief at the
loss of his friend and owner. Mr.. Lo-
gan's sickness was brought on by
exposure. Going to distant sta
ton in the lagoon to locate q
teacher, he was caught in q drench-
ing shower. The natives, when he
landed made fire, and he tried to
dry his wet garments as well as he
could. But the shock to his system
was more than he could endure. If
the U. S. S. Essex had called at
Ruk on her from Ponape to Japan,
something might have been done for
his relief or cure. In the protracted
thirst induced by the fever, the
lines he had planted, not having
yet come into bearing, he found an
agreeable substitute in native
orange. HMr. Logan was never a
robust man; indeed, when he was
ordained, the fatigue of the lengthy
exercises coming upon him after a
tedious CARBIDE, induced fainting
fit. He graduated from Oberlin
Seminary, not from the college, in
1872. After years home mission
airy experience in Wisconsin, he was
moved by letter from Rev. A. A.
Sturges of q Ponape, to offer him
self, in 1874, as a missionary to the
A. B. G. f. M. To that work he
devoted himself with conse Grated
ardor and untiring faithfulness.
He went to the Mortlock Islands to
perfect himself in the language of
which he had learned the rudiments
while residing at Ponape. In the
year he spent on the cherries coral
reef, he translated the whole New
Testament. This he took with him
to Ruk, when he began his work in
that lagoon. Last year an arith'
metic he had prepared in that Ian.
guage was printed in Honolulu and
sent down to him by the Star. A
| geography and reading book were
sent to Boston for publication.
This year there have come up the
manuscripts of a hymn-book and q
biblical catechism. Though I'M
usually Frustrated by sea-
sickness, that malady never detain-
ed him when any work was to be
done. The buildings on Ruk
schoolhouse, chapel, home, were
largely the work of his hands. Ii
his last illness it was thought bes
to remove him out of the noise Of
the work being done to the house Of
his associate Mr.. Treiber, and il
was there that he died. Few more
interesting accounts of missionary
work have even been printed thar
those given in the journals of this
earnest and beloved missionary.