The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-11-13
DR.. BINGHAM TO
Be BURIED HERE

Details of the death of Rev. DR..
Hiram Bingham, so well known in Ho-
nolulu, who died at Johns Hopkins
Hospital, in Baltimore, arrived on the
steamship China yesterday. The doc
tor died on the afternoon of Sunday,
October %, and not the 26th as stated
before. The remains have been ere
mated and will be sent here for burial.
Funeral services were held in Balti-
more on October 2s at the Associate
Congregational church. The pastor,
Rev. DR.. Huckel, presided, and the
principal address was delivered by
Dr. C. G. Creegan, secretary of the
Congregational Foreign Mission Board.
The pallbearers were Congregational
ministers-Revs. B. B. James, Mark
Wells, A. Norris Greenfield and T. M.
Beakendoff. Among the floral tributes
was one from the Congregational min
listers of Baltimore, bearing this in
scription: "In Honor of a Modern
Apostle and Heroic Soldier of the
Cross. -
After the services the remains were
cremated in London Park cemetery.
The service there was the first of
three memorial services. The second
was held in the Brooklyn church, of
which Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was
once pastor, and the third will be held
here in Central Union church. The
Baltimore Star, in speaking of this
latter service, says: "The services Gin
Central Union) will be attended by
many of the savages whom DR.. Bing-
ham converted.o
The following letter concerning DR..
Bingham IS death and funeral was re.
ceived yesterday by DIR. Scudder, pas.
tor of Central Union church, from
Miss Mary ]. Austin, who for two
years was head worker at the Bald.
win Settlement, Lahaina:
623 st. Paul Street, Baltimore.
Dear DIR. Scudder: I'm enclosing
the press notices of DR.. Bingham s
death, and thought you, too, might
want to hear about the funeral SER
vice, which was held this afternoon,
and from which have just returned.
AS his Honolulu friends, perhaps, know
by now, DIR. Bingham had an attack
of pneumonia in Bennington, VT,
| and from there went to St. Luke IS
| Hospital in New York, in order that
he might be in that city for the meet
ing of the American Board. He was
hardly able to, but did, as you know,
make some stirring appeals for his
work in his addresses. From there he
went to New Haven to see his rela-
| tives. DR.. Creegan saw him in New
| London and arranged the details, for
his Baltimore stay. The operation for
which he came to the Hopkins was
| successful, but the shock must have
weakened the heart, for on Sunday af-
ternoon, as he was taking nourish-
ment. he passed away quietly and, the
| physicians say, painlessly. I did not
see him before his death, as I thought
! it perhaps better to wait for day or
two after the operation, when he
might be more in a condition to have
visitors. DIR. Huckel and the other
Congregational ministers certainly did
everything that could have been done
by his friends, and Honolulu and the
Hawaiian Board will be most grateful
TO them for this, I'm sure. The open,
ing hymn at the service this afternoon
was DR.. Bingham's favorite hymn
"The morning light is breaking" and
the closing one, FJerusalem the
golden" The organ at the Associate
Congregational church is a beautiful
one, and the casket was carried NJ
the aisle to the measures of funeral
march. A huge cluster of white flow
ers, the gift of the Congregations,
ministers of the city, covered it. The
, pallbearers were six Congregations
ministers. DR.. Huckel has promised
me copy of his address, and I an
to have that tomorrow.
DIR. Creegan spoke of his day in Ro
nolulu spent with DR.. Bingham in go
ing over with him his birthplace ant
the scenes of his early life. He ais,
, told of his impressive addresses at tn,
, last American Board meeting; of hi
} remarkable personality and his spiri
of conservation. His concluding
, prayer was plea for such men al
, DR.. Bingham himself was. Two of tn,
nephews were present at the Balti
more service. DIR. Creegan is arrang
| ing for memorial service a
Plymouth church, Brooklyn.
The day has been a miserable rainy
one, and many people, no doubt, wer,
prevented from attending the servic,
: on that account. Very few of thos
present knew DIR. Bingham-perhaps
had seen him more frequently thar
anyone else who was present-but
am sure that Baltimore's tribute t,
one of the veterans of the missionar,
army, the "hero of Micronesia" wa
sincere and heartfelt one. DR.. Cree
gan asked me to say to you that th
American Board had done everythin.
in it's power to honor one of it's mos
honored and best-loved workers. Hi
death was so unexpected that ther
, was so little time to make arrange
, ments for larger service.
DIR. Huckel's address I will sen
q under separate cover. have write
: so fully of DIR. Bingham IS death bt
cause know his Honolulu friends wi
/. want to hear everything there is t
tell. Cordially yours,
h JULIA A. MURPHY.
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