The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-11-13

'timore on October % for Rev. DR..
Hiram Bingham, who died at the Johns
Hopkins Hospital on October 20, Rev.
Oliver Huckel, DID,, pastor of the
church made the following address:
Dear Friends: We have met here to
pay our tributes Of honor and respect
| and love to this veteran missionary, DR..
Hiram Bingham, the .hero of Micro.
nesia. - For ffty-six years he has been
| in active service as missionary, doing
heroic work.
1t is only fitting that this soldier of
| the Cross should be buried with all
the honors of war, the divine warfare;
that he should be honored in the sane
tuary; that the great church organ
sould play the final march for him;
that the hymns of the church should be
sung over him, and the words of prayer
be heard in thanksgiving for his noble
life and work. We desire to express in
this service our gratitude to God for
the splendid faith, the dauntless spirit
and the untiring and wonderful service
of this man of God; we desire to honor
the American Board and all the heroic
company of those who have served at
home and abroad in all its long years
of apostolic labors for the spread of
the Kingdom; we desire to express our
| sympathy in this great sorrow with the
bereaved family, with DR.. Bingham IS
sister, Mrs. Coan, wife of the famous
missionary, DIR. Titus Coan; with DR..
Bingham Is son, Prof. Hiram Bingham
of Yale, now on the ocean going to
South America on a government COM
| mission and knowing nothing of his
fathers illness and death; to DR.. Bing-
ham IS two nephews, who are present
with us, and to all DR.. Bingham IS
host of friends in America, and in Ha-
wall, and the islands of the South Seas
We rejoice in the heritage of noble
memories and the benediction of a grae-
ious life and service which he has left
to them and to us all.
The words that st. Paul the aged
spoke of himself as he neared his death
may be applied with perfect appropri
| ateness to this aged servant of God
about whom we are to mediate at this
time: 81 have fought good fight, |
| have finished my course, / have kept
the faith. Henceforth there is laid up
for me crown of righteousness which
the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall
| give to me at that day; and not to me
only, but unto all them also who love
His appearing Less than two weeks
ago it was my privilege to hear DR..
Bingham make stirring address at
the American Board meeting in Brook
| lyn. He was one of the old men there
| seventy-seven years-but one of the
youngest in spirit and hope.
IN not here on a furlough; I'm
here for orders,'' he said in his ringing,
heroic way. He scarcely realized what
the orders would be in few days. He
received his orders from his Heavenly
Father te-eome up higher-for long
furlough of rest there, and also, as i
believe, for further glorious ministries
in that immortal world.
He was heroic figure as he stood
there at that meeting-very tall, for he
was six feet fonr iinches9 sspaue, with
white hair and white beard He looked
like one of the apostles just walked out
/ from the pages of. the New Testament
He did write new chapter in the new
Acts of the Apostles by his work. He
told the story of his life in a Simple
and touching way. AS most of you
know, he was the SON of the missionary,
Hiram Bingham, who helped to trans
form Hawaii. He was born in Homo
lulu, educated there and at Yale. He
consecrated himself to Christ Ct re
member the Joy with which he spoke
those words at the meeting of the
American Board, and they represented
his whole life). He sailed in 1852 in
the first Morning STAR" the first yes
sci built by the contributions from the
Sunday-school children of America, fol
work among the islands of the South
Seas. His work was with the Gilbert
Islands, and there he spent his whole
life-ffty six wears of service as a mis-
sionary, scholar and statesman. He
translated the Bible into Gilbertese; hi
wrote Commentary of the Bible
nearly completed-and made Gilbert
ese dictionary, just finished. He reall,
provided that people with a literature
As he came upon the platform t
J make that address at the last American
Board meeting, the whole assembly ros'
and greeted him with the Chautauqu;
salute. 1t showed in what affection tn,
} faithful veteran was held. His address
all the way through, was one of tn
most interesting, pathetic and vigorou
of all the session. He pleaded for tn
, churches to help the missionaries VIII
7. were giving their lives for the worl
5 He told of the hardships in the wor
because the home church gave SO little
and he told Of the wonderful opportur
tiles for doing good--of the open door
r that God is showing to us today.
a His life is another wonderful an
heroic one like that of John G. Patio
d Of those sister islands, the New Hell
t rides. They are men of the same spiri
Q of the same heroic quality, of the sam
abundant labors for the Lord. II
work was the successful task of brini
ing to civilization and Christianizatio
q whole people. In his fifty years ,
labor he has seen the whole race of IL
:. Gilbertese from fierce warriors az
u superstitious heather transformed in
d a devout, thrifty and Christian peopl
II have been told by one who knew hi
well that his chief characteristics we
gentleness and courage. He braved {
the dangers of those savage islands
se the early days without a weapon-h
az only weapon being supreme trust
God. His adventures with the natl
> | ehiaf Rushv Head he used to tell wi