The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-16
REV. HIRAM BINGHAM AND
THE NEW MORNING STAR

J vessel as you can consistently? True
| IS that most OF the 5000 inhabitants o
Micronesia have repeatedly heard TIL
story of Tedeening love, that multitude
| OF them are now daily singing His praise
while millions in other lands have no
yet even heard of the name of Jesus
These latter no doubt have the create
claim upon you. But, think you, woult
1t be right, would it be what Chris
would have you to do to leave these in
FAINT churches, not yet fully established
IN the faith, for grIevous wolves to come
among and scatter the sheep? Would i
be right TO leave them to the care of thu
Church of Rome which church would b.
glad to see every one of your mission
aries take their departure from Microne.
STA as soon as possible, and has already
sent forty-one priests and nuns into the
Gilbert Islands?
1t is the mature judgment of your mis-
sionaries in the field that if their labors
are to result in permanent good to those
tribes they must have such means pro-
vided for experimenting the work as
will be furnished in the present vessel
and that her services will be greatly
needed for years to come. They earnest
ly look to you for material aid in build
ing up the kingdom of God in those dis
tant isles of the sea. now can you bet
ter aid them than by literally equipping
and maintaining this beautiful Morning
Star now going forth from your midst
on her errands of love?
| have sailed thousands and thousands
of miles in Morning Star, No I, No 2,
and No. 3, have for many years helped
to prepare No. 4 for her long voyages
while she was in port at Honolulu, and
it is my privilege to be here in Boston
to bid Godspeed to No. 5 as she spreads
not her Insignificant sails to the breeze,
but feels the tremor of that propeller
driven by mans faithful but powerful
helper, steam. Once when my dear wife
and myself were about to sail, forty
seven and one-half years ago, from Bos-
ton, IN Morning Star, No. I, Rev. DR.
Thompson, for many years chairman of
the Prudential Committee, prayed that
her sails might be filled with the breath
of prayers from thousands of her stock
holders. My prayer is that the breath
of prayer from the thousands of stock
holders of the present vessel, steam
ship, may help to fan the flames that
shall develop the steam that shall send
her speeding through the waters of the
Atlantic, the ACCOMPLISHMENTS, the NeQ
Sea, past Mt Sinai, the Indian Ocean,
past the spicy breezes which blow soft
DER Ceylon's isle" rushing through the
Straits of Malacca, past the great and
benighted island of Mindanao through
the Western and Equatorial Pacific for
thousands of miles to Ponape and XIII
sale, where her future inter-island voy-
ages will be arranged Would to God,
if it were best, might again be a favor
ed messenger of the gospel of Christ to
revisit those dear Gilbert Islanders for
whom God has permitted me and my
dear wife to labor for nearly forty-seven
years. She who was my companion on
so many voyages has very lately gone to
the better land, where there is no more
sea, whittier soon I hope to go. But let
me thank the good Lord for this addi-
tional and blessed opportunity of using
my pen to help stir up Christ's little ones
to do what they can to provide and
maintain little ship that shall wait on
Him till the fu1lness of the sea shall be
gathered in.
Your friend and fellow-servant,
HIRAM BINGHAM.