A short time following death of Opunui, new missionaries to your Ascension Isle had been also known as to help you mourning because of Odessa women who want to marry the the new loss of Mr
148 148 Meters i c roentgen o n elizabeth s we a. [Statement, quite strong wish it’s, to really make it m y chief company getting a season, 3 or 4 many years at the very least, to arrange and give the fresh Bible, the complete Bible, into the Chinese. North PACIFIC Sea. Roentgen o letter o K we t t i elizabeth. (Ascension Island.) Albert A beneficial. Sturges, Missionary; Mrs. Susan Mary Sturges. Kaaikaula, Hawaiian helper. S h a good l o letter g P o for the t. (Ascension Isle.) Luther H. Gulick, Yards. D., Missionary; Mrs. Louisa L. Gulick. Good s We sland. Benjamin B. Snow, Missionary; Mrs. Lydia Y. Snowfall. On the treatment for the fresh new mission. Edward T. Doane, William C. Shipman, Missionaries ; Mrs. Sarah W. W. Doane, Mrs. a keen. 3 programs. 5 missionaries that a physician. 5 feminine secretary missionaries. 1 Hawaiian assistant. T their purpose has. started really put through the fresh loss of Opunui, Mr. Accumulated snow s Hawaiian representative. The guy died just after an initial however, major disorder, August 4, He was a loyal laborer; along with his death was thought since a highly aching demonstration, just from the his bereaved widow, however, by Mr. and you will Mrs. Snowfall, today left more and more alone within the and you may remote field of labor. Louis Corgat, their extremely dedicated friend one of many overseas residents. He previously of several excellences out of profile, and you can, whether or not a good Roman Catholic, got made brand new missionaries essential guidance. Instead your, claims Dr. Gulick, it’s impossible to express what the past reputation of all of our house right here could have been. Which have him i’ve lived-in the right safeguards throughout the by far the most crucial ages of all of our mission. He seemingly have become kept only for a lengthy period to help Mr. Sturges and m yself obtaining easily compensated. T the guy one or two missionaries into the Ascension Area, exactly who basic receive by themselves among the many Kittie group, to your south-west the main island, think they top which they is always to inhabit a couple of channels; and also in Summer, 1853, Dr. Gulick got rid of so you’re able to Shalong Point, to the a small isle specific four kilometers when you look at the circumference, which lies from the throat of the windward (eastward) harbor, belonging to the Matalanim tribe. He’d previously erected the fresh new figure of a-one tale humane domestic, 30 legs because of the tw enty, -which have a ceiling off
Rev. Messrs. Doane and you can Shipman, with the spouses, sailed off Boston, Summer cuatro, to join so it objective. Mr. Doane are to see Ascension Isle, and Mr. Shipman to Solid s Isle. P Roentgen E A c H In the G S C H O o L S. On 13th of November, 1852, Mr. Snow took arms off a great thatched house erected to own your because of the this new Queen and you can chiefs; as well as on the second Sabbath for the December he stored 1st public service into locals at the his domestic. This new Queen as well as his family, with many chiefs and you will a number of the well-known people, have been present, and you will listened really attentively. Just after on a few months, the spot away from meeting is changed away from Mr. Snow s home so you’re able to an enormous make-family, belonging to the Queen ; and since the period the congregation has numbered off seventy-five to at least one hundred and you will fifty.
This new Queen establishes the new exemplory instance of always becoming present, with his partner and family relations, flnless some kind of special hinderance suppress
They have also, on very first, exerted their influence in support of an outward observation of one’s Sabbath. During the personal away from his first year, Mr. Snow told you, It has today getting up to now a reliable customized towards men and women to esteem a single day, you to on the outside it is leftover having as often propriety such as a number of our spiritual communities at home. An appealing membership of a few of these Sabbath functions, and of the latest thoughts of those in view from just what is said, will be based in the Missionary Herald having March, A school is began of the Mr. Accumulated snow in the an early go out ; and in April the guy composed given that realize s: Regarding my achievements during the teaching the children English, I don’t envision We actually ever encountered the such as for example at domestic ; and you can Mrs.