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

hostile tribes than had been the lot O
any other Micronesian workers
Their work is a story by itself. Mr.
Logan died in 1887, and his family re
turned TO America. but others wer,
sent out, and IN '79 Mrs. Logan wen
back to Ruk to establish a girls
school.
CHANGE OF METHOD.
Meanwhile, it had been necessary tc
make radical change in the method
of work in the eastern groups. The
conditions of living were too hard
valuable lives had been sacrificed. and
it seemed necessary to find way OF
betterment. At the urgent advice OF
DR.. Pease, after a year at Ebon, Ku-
safe was made headquarters for the
Marshall and Gilbert Island work,
and, the mission having acquired a
large tract of land from the king, two
training schools were established, one
under DR.. Pease for the training. Of a
ministry for the Marshall Group, and
another under Mr. waTkup for the
Gilbert Islands. Kusaie has been
called the Gem of the Pacific" and
under the inspiration of natural sur
roundings of such loneliness, and with
the help of better food and abundance
of clear water, the change proved
thoroughly beneficial Mr. Walkup de-
clared, 1.-THE scholars make more
progress in FIVE weeks at Kusaie than
in a year at Apaian." I have often
felt. after prolonged and strenuous
trip through the low islands. that I
could appreciate in no small degree
what this change must mean to our
scholars. Once especially, on return
ing to Kusaie from a SO days tour
through the Gilberts, the rich green of
those 'Heaven-k kissing hills" seemed a
vision of more than earthly beauty;
and we could synpathize with one of
our Marshall teachers, who, on his
first visit to Kusaie, gazed in a trance
of wonder on the beautiful panorama
as the boat sailed toward the mission.
then exclaimed in an undertone, "The
New Jerusalemi"
The necessity of a work rooted in
Christian homes now became apparent,
and resulted in the establishment in
1882, of a girls school at Panape, and
at Kusaie, in 1856, of a school for girls
from the Marshall and Gilbert Groups,
and a few from Kusaie. These schools
were intended to supplement the work
of the training schools for young men,
in providing them with wives who
should be true heIpmates in their
work as teachers.
The new scheme of work involved a
larger vessel, fitted for carrying the
to and from their homes, and
for the yearly evangelizing tours
through each group; and early in 1885
Morning Star No. 4, furnished with
auxiliary steam power to help protect
her in the dangerous navigation among
coral shoals, arrived at the Islands.
This method of work through the
central training schools has been so
often criticised that / wish to say
word more of it here. The missionary
for a group can reside on only one
island, and the interests of the work
demand that he live in the place
where he can make his work tell most
in fitting native teachers for every
island for the years to come. This
training school work is quite the most
trying and difficult, and at the same
time most lasting and important work
20 which the missionary can turn his
1and. 1t takes more patience than
would be required to do the work ones |
self at first hand. The missionary, |
we'll trained in head and heart, in |
with other lives, must sin
gle out the few choice natives, then
rain and mould them, and touch them |
With the 1eaven of life, and stand back |
md let them do the work. This is |
.he best working force for a group OF |
Stands. The man who chose Rev. |
Teremaia of the Marshall Group, and |
helped make it possible for him to be- |
,ome the great preacher and worker |
hat he was, brought more men to |
Christ than if he had done the direct |
work of an evangelist himself in the |
whole group. He gave to Jeremaia
he secret of the Christ-life. When |
Jeremiah, in turn, gave 1t to the peo-
Die, as he did, up and down the whole /
group, it was with the Marshall Island |
,oloring, that the people understood, |
md that appealed at once to their |
hearts. and took hold OF their lives. He |
vas the best type of the well-trained |
native worker.
POLITICAL CHANGES.
And now came a time of poiftical |
,hanges, which wrought havoc in mis- |
ion work at Ponape. In 1885, Ger
many, having already established her
elf in the Marshalls, raised her flag |
n the CaroIines, and Spain, suddenly |
oused to claim the group by right OF |
ng-forgotten discovery, contested the /
,oint so holly that the matter was
unlimited to the Pope for arbitration.
He settled the question by giving the |
yarolines to spain and leaving to Ger
many the Marshall Group. Then fol-
owed times of unrest, and at last OF
error, persecution and 'bloodshed at
the Spanish seat of govern
nent, and in 1890 the missionaries
we're driven out. But all this Is mat
er of history, and I must not enlarge
lpon it here. Enough to say that. un-
il the Carolines, at the close Of the
war in 1899, were
old to Germany, there was no help
or the Christian people; and when,