The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-11

! unexplored. In the winter of 1867
they failed to receive supplies. as they
depended on chance schooners and
the only one which left Honolulu was
able to bring but a scanty. amount of
food. Fortunately, their earnest petit
ton for a mission vessel had been
needed, and in December, 1856, the
first Morning Star" whose owners
were the Sunday School children, sail
ed down Boston Harbor, and faced her
maiden voyage of 1900 miles to Ho-
nolulu, carrying as passengers Rev.
and Mrs. Hiram Bingham, Mr.. Bling
ham, the son, as you know, of one of
the first missionaries to these islands,
thirty-seven years before. The voy-
age was made in surprisingly quick
time; and as a crowd of 1000 had wit
messed the launching of the vessel in
the east, SO here in Honolulu an en-
white winged messenger of peace by
three or four thousand people, the
Sunday School children marching two
and two to the wharf. One who was
an eyewitness of this unusual scene
writes, What gives such moral power
and sublimity to that little vessel?
AAAAS AANliC u dLt, DCdIlIlS Tie DduIlGE
of our Eternal King and waving the
emblems of the Prince of Peace, has
more significance than all the COM
mercial, scientific and warIike
marines on EARTH
1t was in August, 1857, that the de-
parture was made for Micronesia,
with the Binghams to join the mis-
tsionary force. and the father of DIR.
Gulick of Ponape as a delegate from
the Hawaiian Missionary Society. At
that time 1t was thought necessary to
include in the equipment of the yes
sci boarding-nets, in order to guard
against surprises from savages and
bad foreigners" who might attempt
to seize. the vessel and kill all on
board
A week at Kusaie, where the mis-
sionaries received their supplies Just
in the nick of time. and the Star went
on to Ponape. / have said that DR..
Guliok's father had come down as a
delegate; it is interesting to know, too,
that Mr.. Oramel Quick was an officer
on this first Morning STAR No Won
der that DR.. Gulick writes of the yes
sells arrival at Ponape, Though nat
urally no more of a singer than
Zacharias during his dumbness, I al
most burst into song every time I see
the beautiful apparition"
DIVISION OF FIELDS.
1t was decided that Messrs Doane
and Pierson should begin work in the
Marshall Islands, and Mr.. Bingham, |
with Kanoa, in the Gilbert Group.
The 'tStar'' touching at Pingelap and |
Mokil on her way back to Kusaie, |
our missionaries were impressed by the !
'wildness, rudeness, nakedness, I'M
couthness, friendliness. inquisitiveness, |
and noisiness'' of the ma |
tives.
In November, 1857, the ''Star'' made |
Ebon in the Marshalls, where the two |
were to be placed. DR.. |
Pierson had the advantage of some |
little knowledge of the language, as |
In the previous year five canoes, filed |
with men, women and children, had |
drifted from this group to Kusaie, and |
had been ministered to by DR.. Pierson. |
His fame had gone abroad, and he was |
now welcomed as a teacher with the !
greatest joy. The more glad of such |
a welcome were the missionaries, as |
no people in Micronesia We're so badly /
spoken of as the Marshall Islanders, |
who were reputed to be "mercilessly |
But it was their cruel treat |
ment at the hands of unprincipled for |!
eigners which had made them 50, and |
nothing but goodwill was ever shown |
to the missionaries or their vessel.
The Star then proceeded to. the |
Gilbert Islands, and in November, !
fifty years ago. Mr.. and Mrs. Bingham !
and Kanoa and his wife landed on |
Apaian.
Life on the low coral islands was |
found to be a very different PROPOSE /
ton from life on Kusaie or Ponape.
The lack of fresh food or good water, |
the great heat, the monotonous sur |
all combined TO make con- |
ditions hard. In the Marshall Islands, |
owing to more rain, the breadfruit |
thrives. so that the question was /
little less difficult: but Mr.. and Mrs
stationed on an island whose
only products were cocoanuts. panda-
nus and a coarse ''babai." which
as Mr. Bingham writes, after hours
of boiling, can be mashed with no or J
binary force" were obliged to make