The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-21

tered the harbor of New Haven whicl
 had on board a Hawaiian youth named
 Obookiah, who. fo rsome reason, haC
 been allowed to take passage in 1t. Il
 the conflicts of the natives his parents
 had been slain in his presence. He ha(
 learned some English and fingered
 about the College buildings, of the us'
 of which he had been informed. Ont
 day he was seen on the treshold of ont
 of these buildings of the old bricl
 line, weeping. The observer, Rev. Ed
 win w. Dwight, in answer to an in
 quiry, was told by him that he was
 weeping because there was no one tC
 teach him. The attention thus drawr
 to this solitary youth, led to a move
 ment under the lead of President
 Dwight, which resulted in the estab-
 lishment by the American Board, of a
 School at Cornwall, Connecticut, for
 the training of young men from heath
 en countries for missionary service in
 their native lands. The School was
 continued for a number of years. In
 the first company of missionaries which
 the Board sent to the Hawaiian ls-
 lands, which sailed from Boston in 1919,
 was Asa Thurston, who was graduated
 at Yale in 1916. There he lived and la
 bored with signal energy and success
 for forty-eight years, never once visit
 ing his native country. His uncommon i physical powers were mated with an
 unusual mental vigor and accuracy. 1 Not very long after he commenced his
 work, a proAgate native priest assault
 ed his wife. She fled to her dwelling i 1O ,,E
 rough assailant soon followed both
 over the threshold but" says the narrator he was glad to flee from the
 powerful arm of a man who at Yale
 College had been voted the most ath-
 letic student in his class" "NiXere l fortes ante Agamennona multi" En- deared to the people, efficient as
 preacher, and useful as a translator of the Scriptures, he lived on to the age
 of eighty,
 Perhaps no foreign missionary from Yale has attained to higher distinction, or won it more worthily, than Eli Smith, graduate of the class of 1S21Y He entered upon his work in 1927, and continued it until his death in 1857. So extensive were his journeys in different countries in the East that he was styled the explorer of lands for others to occupy. In addition to his acquaint- ance with the ancient languages, and with several modern tongues, besides lhe TurlSi sh, he wes a thorough student of the Arabic and the kindred lam guages. TO companionship with Dr. Smith and to his geographical and lin- guistic learning Dr. Edward Robin
 T.J, q great part of its value. Dr. Smith preached fiuently in Arabic. He had gone so far in rendering the Bible with remarkable accuracy into the Arabic as to comprise in his translation the en- tire New Testament, the historical books of the Old Testament, and large portion of the rest of the Scrip lures. This translation, unlike most other versions of the Bible, needs at the present day. no revision It may not be genrally known to you that the Professor of American History in the University is a son of this distinguished missionary.
 Among the Yale missionaries in Syria one who is still there, prosecuting his most useful and successful work, is tIIc INtN, Dl. IlCul II. oVcsupi h . uate of the class of 1851. He entered upon his work in 1856 Since the form ing of the distinct Presbyterian Board. the Syrian mission has been under the direction of the Presbyterian Church. In letter to the President and Fellows of Yale in response to an invitation to attend the Bicentennial Commemora- tion, Dr. Jessup writes: "On my ar- rival here, in February, 1856, one of the first men to greet me was Eli Smith. He was then engaged on that monu- work, the translation of the Bi- ble into the Arabic language,-a work which has forever connected the name i of Yale with the spiritual enlighten- ment of tens of millions of our race"
 Not unworthy to have his name asso- eiated with that eminent missionary, is Dr. Azariah Smith both preacher and physician, chiefly in Western Turkey, l Yale graduate in the class of 1887. He vas man of extra ordinary merit.
 David Tappan Stoddard was grad lated in 1888. He was a Tutor in Col ege for two years. In 1S43 he entered Ipon his career as missionary to the Nestorians in Persia. He died at the lge of thirty nine. He was a man of uncommon talents. Persian nobles and princes honored him for his learning. n the tone of his piety he brought to hind the Apostle John, He was often eferred to as "the saintly Stoddard." let h ewas a man of unbending princi- les Dr. Anderson, the Secretary of he American Board at the time of his -isit to this country in 1S49, says of i'm, as he appeared at the Annual 1eetng: My own thought at the lme was that were an angel present in uman form, his appearance and de- : ortment would be much like those of Ir Stoddard" Prof. B. B. Edwards f Andover, a man not given to exag- eration, wrote: "He goes among the ( burning like a seraph. So eavenly spirit has hardly ever been cen in this country"
 In the first company of missionaries ) Ceylon was Benjamin c. Meigs. a lember of the class of 1909. He spent lore than forty years, QS15-1S5S) in { nat country. preaching and organizing ( 'hools in a spirit of untiring self lcrifice
 In the record which the University as made of work accomplished in h. :, ia, l can only remind you of single, nd that a recent, incident In the lidSt of the late aDpal1ing famine tha E