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Title: The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands (electronic resource)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Browne, George Waldo, 1851-1930
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Publisher: Boston, D. Estes & Co
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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boy,Opukahaia, did not live to see his dream of free-ing his people realised, but his two friends, tenyears later, at the very time the last defendersof the old religion of Hawaii were meeting theirtragic fates, were among a little congregation ofcourageous men and women organised in ParkStreet Church, Boston, with the express purposeof carrying the light of Christianity to thebenighted race. This little band, besides the two young Hawai-ians, Kamoree and Hopu, was composed of nine-teen persons, two young graduates of AndoverTheological Seminary, Hiram Bingham and AsaThurston, Dr. Thomas Holman, Samuel Buggies,a teacher, Samuel Whitney, a mechanic, DanielChamberlain, a farmer, and Elisha Loomis, aprinter, all with their wives, and five childrenbelonging to Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain. Thisparty left Boston on the brig Thaddeus^ October23, 1819, and, after a six months voyage aroundCape Horn, on March 31, 1820, the snow-cladpeaks of Mauna Kea rose before the vision of theweary seafarers.
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QUEEN KATIOLANI. MISSIONARY WOBK. 89 They were received by the foreign population ofthe islands with opposition, but the king grantedthe missionaries permission to tarry a year. Mr.Bingham, assisted by his laymen, Messrs. Loomisand Chamberlain, began work at Oahu. Soon theprinting-press of the former was running, and thefirst spelling-books for these people were printed.Messrs. Ruggles and Whitney went to Kauai,where a chapel and school were soon built, theking and his chiefs being among their first pupilsboth in the teachings of church and school. Rev.Asa Thurston and Doctor Holman, with theirwives, settled at Kailua, on the island of Hawaii,which historic spot is still pointed out to thenewcomer as one of great interest. The Hawaiians were peculiarly well situated toreceive the doctrines of the teachers of the newfaith. They have always been, indeed, quick tograsp any form of knowledge, and the missionariesfound fertile fields for their religious cultivation.The little handful of re

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