The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-16

The Missionary Herald contains the
following letter from Rev. Hiram Bing-
ham, preceded by a brief editorial &C
count of his career:
/ CDR. Bingham and his wife sailed from
| Boston as missionaries to Micronesia on
the first Morning Star in 1886, and ten
/ years later he, as captain, took out the sec
| ond Morning Star to Micronesia and has
remained there and in Honolulu in mis-
| sionary service for the Gilbert Islanders
until the present time. On coming to
the States few weeks since, primarily
to put through the press a commentary
for the Gilbert Islanders, he found that a
new Morning Star was purchased, and
now ready to sail. He greatly desired
to sail on her that he might once more
visit the island groups with which he
was so familiar, but medical advice was
strongly against his making the attempt.
In his great delight over the new vessel
and the blessed service which may be
anticipated from it among the islands in
Micronesia, he has been moved to ad-
dress the following letter to young peo-
pie, having special reference to the thou
sands who have not as yet taken shares
in the vessel He has been in some good
sense the children's missionary from his
long identification with their missionary
vessels and his words will be welcomed
not only by youths, but by many not
young in years, though young in spirit.)
My dear young friends:
Will you permit an old missionary,
now nearly seventy-three years of age, |
to thank those of you who have aided |
in the purchase of the Morning Star, No |
5, and to suggest to you who have not |
yet done SO some reasons why you would |
do we'll to give such aid? You know |
that it is expected that this missionary
vessel will remain for a long period in |
the lonely Micronesian waters, that she |
may be able to make two tours a year, |
at least, through the Caroline, Marshall, |
and Gilbert Islands, instead of one, as
in the case of former Stars. Having |
been built in 1900, it is natural that to |
put her in hrst-class order it has been |
found necessary to make extensive re-
pairs on a portion OF the furnace. To |
provide her with accommodations for a
large number of students who will need !
to take passage on her to and from the i
training schools on Kusaie and Ruk, it
has been necessary to do a large amount
of ship carpenters work. Something
has been done to make life on board
of the equator. l have sailed in Mi
cronesian seas on three of the Morning
Stars, and can appreciate all that is done
to make life on the ocean more COM
Portable.
I congratulate my associates in Micro
nesia in having had provided for them
such fine steamer as is Morning Star,
No. 5, for helping win for Christ
portion of this world for which he died.
I feel sure that their hearts, so lately
respondent because of the very limited
means at their control for visiting the
various and numerous outstations under
their care in these later years, will bound
with joy when they, three months hence,
come to see with their own eyes, what I
have so recently been permitted to see,
a small steamship capable of steaming
ten knots an hour. Morning Star, No.
q, could steam only FIVE.
Will not those of you who have not
yet taken shares add to the joy of these
by coming promptly for
ward in aid of the blessed work by TAX
ing as many shares of stock in this new