The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-05-27

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tire TRANSLATION of the Bible. and aided
[ by his faithful wife. saw u through ihs
press ~ the American Bible House
giving every page ht least Four proof
readings There was also prepared by
him a Bible dictionary. hmm and
tune book while Mrs. bingham revised
and published a new edition of her Gil
bert Island arithmetic. and prepared
Bible readings
Passing on for n moments glance si
fieids more remote. We find Miss Van
Duzee throughout this decade faith.
fully laboring In Persia. In Aintab are
the shepards. who made multitude of
friends among the patients from
all parts OF Central Turkey flock
ing 10 the hospital Of which Dr.
:. had charge. These cousins count
ed their lives not dear unto themselves
while with heroic endurance they
passed through the horrors of the Ar
menian massacres, aiding and COM
forting the afflicted people.
In Spain were William Gullck and his
wife. most wisely and valiantly carry
ing forward an educational work OF
which 1t was said: THE quiet meth
DDS, the strict discipline, the manifest
improvement of the pupils revolutions
lied public opinion regarding II. .
1t received public recognition such as
never before in Spain has been accord
ed to Protestant missionary institu-
tion of any kind" To no other cousin
were we indebted for so full CORE
spondence as to William Gulick
Rarely has life been so full of
changes and so marked by ceaseless
activities as that of DR.. l.. II. Gulick,
chief organizer Of our society. His feet
traversed many n strand, his eloquent
voice was heard on many shore. In
Micronesia, Hawaii and Japan: In
America. Europe and Asia he told the
message of the Master. On the Sth of
April. 1891 his Lord crowned his SER
want and gave him welcome to his joy.
OF the other brothers of this rare
missionary family, three, Rev. o. II.
Gulick, Rev. John s. and Theodore w,
were all gospel heralds i'm Japan sup
plemented in their labors by their
charming wives. with their sister Ju-
liza no whit behind in consecrated en-
ergy. Sidney l.. and Hattie NJ, chill
dren of DIR. and Mrs. l.. II. Quick, mar
ried in 1887. and with their companions
Joined their kindred in Japan and wore
the mantle of their parents. OF her
widowed mother Hattie wrote: "She is
host wherever help Is needed at home
or in the missionary work. where her
fertile mind is always devising new
methods Of interesting the shy multi
tudes." She died in Kumumoto, June
IA. 1894.
few statistics may here be of in
terest. Chronicled i'm the annual re-
ports from 1857 TO 1896 were eighty-four
marriages of members of the society:
one hundred and thirty-one births, of
which sixtyfive We're boys and sixty
six girls: one hundred and eighteen
deaths. In this last we find the names
of ten of the missionary mothers who
passed on into glory. These were
Mesdames Alexander, Emerson, Hitch
cock, Johnson, Melicent Smith, Lyons
Dimond, Green, Bailey and Tinker. Dear
mother Dimond was the oldest of these
revered women. whose average age was
81. The fathers who fell asleep during
this period were Rev. Lorenzo Lyons,
DIR. j. w. Smith, the venerable James,
Ely, aged 81. member OF ,he first rein
forcement, DIR. Lowell Smith, Rev. j. d
Paris. DR.. Seth l.. Andrews Hon. S "
Castle and Father Dimond. Their average
age of So years. Shocks of corn fully ripe
were they, gathered into the garner of
| the Lord.
! l do not know what other decades show
as to our contributions but looking over
the treasurer's figures in my period
| find the amount of receipts to have been
s3s6S3. Not poor showing when We con-
slider in how many other benevolent en-
terprises the cousins are leading and ac-
tive factors. In 1887, thanks to our adopt
ed cousin, w. c. Merritt, there was kept
rare jubilee to mark the fftieth ami
versary of the landing of the reinforce
ment of 1887. To his kindly, generous
efforts We owe the Jubilee pamphlet, that
preserved for us the papers historic and
Geographic of the reminiscents on that
occasion Read these papers, and your
hearts Will be stirred anew with loving
reverence for men and women who gave
their lives in willing sacrifice for the Ha.
waiian people. Among other items for
that year was that OF the coming OF
Rev. Thomas l. .Gulick and his lovely
wife for pastoral work on Maui, also that
of the celebration of q silver wedding
when host of friends offered congratu.
lations to Mr., and Mrs. =. G. Jones and
were royalty entertained by them.
I In lSSS an attempted revolution made
that the most marked historic year up tC
that time of the Hawaiian Kingdom sine,
the organization of the II. NJ. c. S. Som'
of the cousins We're among the framer.
of a new constitution and the numbers Of
those in honorable stations of government
tai trust was much increased. l.. \
Thurston was Minister OF the Interior
Hon S. b. Dole was enrolled among mem
bers of the Supreme Bench. DIR. S. L.
Bishop was editor in chief of the Friend
and Henry Castle editor of the CONNER
cial Advertiser.
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