The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-08-05
One Of the First Missionary
Workers in Hawai-.
LIFE OF CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY.
Was Graduate of Bowdoin College.
Sketch of Work Done by ''Father''
and Mother Bond-Came From
Maine An Early Missionary.

Nv away from this life at half past one
last Friday morning, July oath, within
a month of completing his eighty-third
wear. For five years he had been con-
fined mostly TO his bed, and for over
two years had been a constant and
helpless sufferer, longing to be releas-
ed, but patiently waiting the will of the
Master.
He was born in HallOwell, Maine, and
was by trade a halter, but becoming
early converted, he decided to prepare
himself for the ministry, and with that
end in view entered BowdOin College
in Brunswick, Maine, from whence he
graduated in 1887. After graduation
from the Bangor Theological Seminary
in Maine in 1910, he offered his services
TO the American Board of Commission
ers for Foreign Missions, and was as
signed to duty in the Hawaiian Islands.
He found in Ellen Mariner Howell of
Portland, Maine, a person who was Will
ling to join him in that kind OF work,
and who ever afterwards proved to be
a laboriOus and devoted help-meet.
Having been united in marriage on the
18th of September, 1910, they sailed
from Boston in the ship Gloucester"
which bore to these Islands the fourth
installment of missionaries to this land,
their fellow passengers and co-laborers
being the late Rev. Daniel Dole, Rev.
J. D. Paris and w H. Rice, with their
wives, all of whom have long since
passed away from these earthly scenes
of labor, with the exception of Mother
Rice" who still remains.
After tedious passage of six months
around Cape Horn, including a stop
page at Rio JaneirO for repairs, this
notable company landed in Honolulu
on May 21st, 1871, during the annual
meeting of the missionaries.
Sailing thence not long after the adj
journment of the meeting, the subject
of this sketch, with his life partner,
arrived at their final destination in
North Kohala, Island of Hawaii, where
they remained until the day of their re-
spective deaths, neither of them ever
returning to the shores of their native
land, with the exception of Mr.. Bond
who took a brief trip to San Francisco
for his health in 1869 or 1870, returning
by the same vessel by which he went
Shortly after their arrival Mr.. Bond
date a dozen boys, which he continued
for thirty-six years, sending out there
from over 300 boys we'll trained in man
ual labor, besides being otherwise fit
ted, after passing through the Hilo
Boarding School under the efficient
training Of Rev. D. B. Lyman, and the
High School at Lahainaluna, to become
prominent men and leaders in the pull
pits and the schools of the neighbOring
islands of the Pacific, as we'll as of their
native land.
Mrs Bond also started a day school
for young women or girls, whom she in
Quoted to the mysteries of sewing, and
which she kept up until the increasing
cares of growing family in addition
to other labors of a character we'll
known to workers in mission fields,
compelled her to discontinue
On the 18th of May, 1881, Mother
Bond was released from a life of prac-
tically incessant toll and self-sacrifice.
and Father Bond was left to continue
his labOrS alone.
As was the custom in early days,
when white settlers in the country were
few and far between, Father Bond per-
formed the duties of postmaster until
the increasing demands of the service
consequent on the influx of foreign res
idents, and the growth of business that
followed the establishment of sugar
plantations, absorbed more of his time
than he felt able to take from his regu-
lar duties. This must have been about
the year 1877 For the same reasons he
ably filled the position of school agent
which he held until near the close of
1869. A number of school houses built
under his supervision and suited to the
requirements of those times, together
with the large stone church in IOIe, still
stand as monuments of his labors.
On the urgent request of Chief Justice
Lee, in behalf of the native Hawaiians.
| in 1850, when a part of the lands until
| then held as the property of the King
| and chiefs, was by them set apart for
the people and thrown upon the open
market and when competent survey
Ors were not as plentiful as they are
at the present time, Mr. Bond assumed
the duties of Government agent for
the sale of lands, and surveyed them
for those who would buy Not how
ever, relinquishing the special work for
which he came to these Islands and
which no offers of Government service
in high office, nor equally good offers to
engage with others in mercantile bust
ness, could induce him to give up. His
duties as land agent ceased in 1862.
Compelled by the eXigencies of the
times in answering the combined de-
mands of providing for domestic as
well as religious and educational wants.
he was by turns carpenter, stone mason.
painter and man of all work, in a way
not appreciated by occupants of the
pulpits in these days Of comparative
ease and comfort, in a healthy and Wig
the modern cOnveniences of steam
nOXPr electric LIGHT and felnnhnna nd