On October 15, 1819, in the Park Street Church, Boston, a
mission to the Hawaiian Islands was organized with the following
members: Messrs. Bingham and Thurston, ministers; Messrs.
Whitney and Ruddles, teachers; Thomas Holman, physician; Elisha
Loomis, printer; Daniel Chamberlain, farmer, together with their
wives, and three Hawaiian young men from the Cornwall Missionary
School. These seventeen went forth to erect a Christian
civilization upon pagan shores, for they represented the Church,
the common school, the printing-press, the medicine-chest, and
the implements of agriculture. They set sail from Boston October
23, 1819, and reached the Hawaiian coast March 31, 1820, after
somewhat more than five months.--PIERSON, “The Miracles
of Missions.”
(2051)
=Missionary Giving=--See CROWNING CHRIST.
=Missionary Good Sense=--See DIPLOMAT, A, AND MISSIONS.