The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1895-10-18

full style, frightened by occasional
glints of humor and teeming with
touches of great beauty and psthos.
Mrs. Jewett is most fortunate in
materials for her work. She has the
written word,-early and later jour.
nails kept in great detail by DIR. GU
lick, long family letters that circled
the world in one round, manuscripts
filed in the rooms of the American
Board in Boston, and letters here in
Hawaii. She has the added testi-
mony of the living voice-the hearty
cooperation OF relatives and friends;
many OF whom are well known by US.
She can say of much in the book
quorum magma pars fui. Her SYM
pathy and ease of expression make
her well qualified for the task of
which she has acquitted herself no.
bly,.
In the pages devoted to the boy
hood of his father we have valuable
psychological study of the religious de-
velopment OF one to the mission-field
born, and his struggles are told for the
most part in his own words. He was
lonely child whose journal was ever
% his bosom friend, and through its
pages we find him athirst for study,
fonder of books than play, ambitious,
imaginative, interpretive and terri
bly, conscientious. At the age of fif-
teen we find the missionary inherit
ance and surroundings crystallizing
into this dedication: 81 will claim the
whole heather world as my country
men," which was a prophecy of his
whole life's work.
At twenty-three he had completed
his studies, medical and theological,
which not infrequently he had pur-
sued at the cost of his health. AL
though in magnetic touch with world
events, he was yet eager to leave them
and live in Polynesia, whose people
in darkness he must lead to the light.
We have vivid sketches of the life
in Micronesia, the most picturesque
part of the book, and what with build
ing, housekeeping, teaching, printing
and visiting, DIR. Gulick was not
gentleman of leisure. With all this
he was great and close reader, con-
WINGED that study with action made a
rounded missionary. He wished to
be abreast of the times in the world of
thought. This is his program for one
month:
/. Study of Ponape Language.
By much conversation with the ma
tives. 2. By filling out my vocabu-
larry. 8. By preparing first lessons.
4. By writing scripture lessons.
ii. Teaching Natives Il. Our do
mestics in English. 2. School in Po-
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Sabbath exercises.
sionary journals for Boston. 2. A few
letters. 8. Medical thesis. 4. Morn
ing and evening, Hebrew Bible. 5.
New England Theology. 6. Ichthy-
ology.
". Physical Labor. Preparation
of canoe. .. Building school. house.
3. Finishing veranda. 4. Sides of my
house.
An awful picture is that of the cpl
demic OF smallpox, with its double
menace to DIR. Gulick's life; most pa
thetic is the glimpse afforded us of his
loneliness when his family are obliged
TO be in Honolulu and letters are slow
so slow in coming; and pathetic,
and amusing too, it is to see the poor
missionary in his wife's absence cut
ting and fitting garments for the Po-
napean women in their mania for
dresses not so simple as the Hawaiian
holoku. About these, DR.. Gulick
writes to his wife
81 was all day yesterday making
dresses. We had five underway at
once. Strange work for MANI
making dresses all this week. 1
shall be curious to know whether you
approve the way in which they fit.
The set of sleeves is that in which l
most completely fail"