A few days adopting the death of Opunui, the newest missionaries on Ascension Island was indeed referred to as in order to mourning by the brand new loss of Mr
148 148 M we c roentgen o letter elizabeth s i a. [Report, quite strong need it is, to make it yards y master providers to have a season, three to four decades at the very least, to prepare and provide brand new Bible, the complete Bible, towards Chinese. Northern PACIFIC Water. Roentgen o n o K i t t we age. (Ascension Area.) Albert A beneficial. Sturges, Missionary; Mrs. Susan Mary Sturges. Kaaikaula, Hawaiian helper. S h a l o n g P o inside the t. (Ascension Isle.) Luther H. Gulick, M. D., Missionary; Mrs. Louisa L. Gulick. Strong s I sland. Benjamin B. Accumulated snow, Missionary; Mrs. Lydia Y. Snow. On the means to fix the latest objective. Edward T. Doane, William C. Shipman, Missionaries ; Mrs. Sarah W. W. Doane, Mrs. an. step three programs. 5 missionaries you to a physician. 5 women assistant missionaries. step one Hawaiian assistant. T his objective possess. started severely put through the brand new loss of Opunui, Mr. Snow s Hawaiian member. He died immediately following an initial however, severe infection, August cuatro, He was a loyal worker; and his passing is actually thought because an extremely aching trial, not simply by the his bereaved widow, but because of the Mr. and you can Mrs. Accumulated snow, today kept inside your by yourself within their the newest and you can secluded world of work. Louis Corgat, the really faithful pal one of the overseas people. He’d of numerous excellences out-of character, and you will, even when a good Roman Catholic, got made the brand new missionaries extremely important guidelines. Instead of him, states Dr. Gulick, it’s impossible to state exactly what the past reputation for all of our residence here has been. With your we have stayed in the right security throughout more vital period of the purpose. He seems to have already been preserved merely for a lengthy period to help Mr. Sturges and you can m yself in enabling comfortably compensated. T he a few missionaries toward Ascension Isle, just who first located themselves among Kittie group, to the southern-western area of the isle, imagine it better that they should consume a couple of channels; along with June, 1853, Dr. Gulick got rid of to Shalong Point, to your a tiny island certain four miles in the circumference, and this lies within lips of your own windward (eastward) harbor, of the Matalanim tribe. He had in the past erected the body type regarding a single facts gentle home, thirty ft from the tw enty, -with a threshold from
Rev. Messrs. Doane and you will Shipman, due to their spouses, sailed out of Boston, Summer 4, to participate this goal. Mr. Doane should be go to Ascension Isle, and you can Mr. Shipman so you can Good s Island. P R Elizabeth A-c H Inside G S C H O o L S. Towards the 13th of November, 1852, Mr. Snow grabbed palms regarding an excellent thatched home erected to possess him by the the brand new King and you can chiefs; and on another Sabbath in December he stored his first public service into the natives at the their house. The new Queen and all sorts of their family members, with many different chiefs and a few of the preferred anyone, was in fact introduce, and you can listened most attentively sexy Dominicans girls. Once about a couple months, the place away from fulfilling is changed regarding Mr. Snowfall s domestic so you can a massive cook-domestic, of the Queen ; and since that point the congregation keeps designated from seventy-four to 1 hundred or so and you will 50.
The fresh new Queen kits this new illustration of constantly getting present, together with his spouse and you may household members, flnless some special hinderance suppresses
They have and additionally, about basic, exerted their influence in favor of an outward observation of the Sabbath. On close out of 1st season, Mr. Snowfall said, This has today end up being at this point a professional custom into the men and women to respect your day, one to on the outside it’s remaining which have as much propriety like in many of our religious teams in the home. An appealing account of some of these Sabbath functions, and of this new feelings of those in view off just what is actually said, will be found in the Missionary Herald to have February, A school try commenced by Mr. Snow during the an early on big date ; plus in April the guy typed as the follow s: Regarding my personal victory into the practise the youngsters English, I do not imagine We previously met with the like from the domestic ; and you will Mrs.