The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-26
THE HAWAII0 EARLY DAYS
NOW 4 WEEPING BOY INTERESTED
NEW HAYENERS IN THE ISLAND.

A Romance of Missions of Especial Local
Interest-The Conversion of the Sand
witch Islanders and Their Rapid Progress
"A Summary of the Results Attained.
The presence of the eX-queen of the
Hawaiian Islands in Boston lends in
terest to the fact that those islands
have been brought by the missionaries
of the American board from savagery
to civilization. The entire work has
been accomplished since 1919.
The history, as written by the Rev.
S. G. Bartlett. D. D.. of Hanover, N,
H. ex-president of Dartmouth college,
states that in the year 1909 a dark
skinned boy was found weeping on the
doorsteps at Yale college. His name
was Henry Obookiah and he came from
the Sandwich Islands. In a civil war
his father and mother had been slain
before his eyes; and when he fled with
his infant brother on his back the child
was killed with a spear, and he was
taken prisoner.
The poor boy at the age of fourteen,
nall 70 New Haven He 1inpered round
the college huildines and the Rev. Ed
win w. Dwight, a resident graduate,
found him and toop him as a pupil.
In the autumn of that year came an
other resident graduate to New Haven
for the n,,,.nose of awakanine the shirt
IF n,issions r. was Samuel 7 Mills
Obool,iob to1d MINIS how the neon1a of
Hawaii ..nrav 70 GODS made of wood"
ord he 1onoed ..to 1earn to road this
Rihla and 90 hack there and tell them
~ NAV "a Cd I'M in heaven"
Mills took Ohookiah to his own home
T., ;rsford Conn and thence TO
Andovor Mass fora two-vears, resi-
dence. after which the Young man
found bic wav tn the grammar school
a. T.i+obfia1d Conn and when it was
onaned in 1917 10 the Foreign Mission
school a. Cornwall Conn. At Litch-
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Choa1siat rannooe Honr and two 9th.
H., ,,o,,+hs u,i+t, san,,e, Rug
e,os 49, E1isbo Toor,is
d. ohoo1,iab rina months from the
onenino of the mission school closed
oons;stent Christian life with a
roaceful Christian death. The memoir
of his life crystallized into a mission.
The story drew legacies from the dying
and donations from the living.
Tn two wears more a missionary band
was ready for the Sandwich Islands.
Hopu. Tennooe and John Honoree, ma
tives Of the islands, We're to be accom-
panied by Hiram Bingham and Asa
Thurston, young graduates of Andover;
DR.. Thomas Holman, young physi-
clan; Daniel Chamberlain, a substan-
tial farmer; Samuel Whitney, me-
chanic and teacher; Samuel Ruggles,
catechist and teacher; and Elisha
Loomis, printer and teacher.
The band sailed October 70, 1873, from
Boston harbor.
Hopu called up to MS frlend RUG
giles at l o'clock on a. moonlight hisht
(March 80 to get the hrst glimpse Oh
Hawaii, and at daypreak the snow
capped peak of Mauna kea was IN luil
view. few hours more, ana Hopu
pointed out the valley Where ne was
born. A boat was put on, with f1opu
and others in 1T, which encountered
some fishermen and returned. AS the
boat neared the vessel, Hopu shouted
"Oahu's idols are no more! Inc ola
king, Kamehameha, was dead, Llllon-
of the gods had been all burned; the
men ate with the women; but one
chief was killed in setting the gov
eminent; and ne for refusing TO de-