Historical Sketch of the Hawaiian Mission
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Excerpt from Historical Sketch of the Hawaiian Mission: And the Missions to Micronesia and the Marquesas Islands In the year 1809, a dark skinned boy was found weeping on the door-steps at Yale College. His name was Henry Obookiah (Opukahaia); and he came from the Sandwich Islands. In a civil war, his father and mother had been slain before his eyes; and when he fled with his infant brother on his back, the child was killed with a spear, and he was taken prisoner. Lonely and wretched, the poor boy, at the age of fourteen, was glad to come, with Captain Brintnell, to New Haven. He thirsted for instruction; and he lingered round the College buildings, hoping in some way to gratify his burning co desire. But when at length all hope died out, he sat down and wept. The Rev. Edwin W. Dwight, a resident graduate, found him there, and kindly took him as a pupil. In the autumn of that year came another resident graduate to a New Haven, for the purpose of awakening the spirit of missions. It was Samuel J. Mills. Obookiah told Mills his simple story - how the people of Hawaii "are very bad; they pray to gods made of wood;" and he longs "to learn to read this Bible, and go back there and tell them to pray to God up in heaven." Mills wrote to Gordon Hall, "What does this mean? Brother Hall, do you understand it? Shall he be sent back unsupported, to attempt to reclaim his countrymen? Shall we not rather consider these southern islands a proper place for the establishment of a mission?" Mills took Obookiah to his own home in Torringford, and thence to Andover for a two years´ residence; after which the young man found his way to the grammar school at Litchfield, and when it was opened, in 1817, to the Foreign Mission School at Cornwall, Conn. At Litchfield he became. acquainted and intimate with Samuel Ruggles, who about this time (1816) resolved to accompany him to his native island with the gospel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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