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Bartimeus, of the Sandwich Islands
Bartimeus, of the Sandwich Islands
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Bartimeus, of the Sandwich Islands. By Rev. Hiram Bingham (1789 - 1869), One of the First Missionaries to those Islands. Published by The American Tract Society, in New York and Boston in 1851. (60 pages)
The Publisher has copy-edited this book to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of the text to make it readable. This did not involve changing the substance of the text. Some books, due to age and other factors may contain imperfections. Since there are many books such as this one that are important and beneficial to literary interests, we have made it digitally available and have brought it back into print for the preservation of printed works of the past.
Contents:
Chapter I. Origin and heathen state of Bartimeus — Chapter II. His reception of the gospel, and his transition state — Chapter III. His removal to Lahaina — His progress at the new station, and admission to Christian fellowship — Chapter IV. His progress and influence as a Christian and friend of temperance at Lahaina — Chapter V. His visit, residence, and labors at Hilo — Chapter VI. His return to Maui — Residence at Wailuku — Lay-preaching — Chapter VII. His appointment as deacon — His official license to preach the gospel — Chapter VIII. His labors as an evangelist — Removal to Honuaula — Final visit to Wailuku— His death
Excerpts:
...The pioneers of the Christian mission sent by the American Board in 1819, to the Sandwich Islands, early found among the thousands of their degraded inhabitants, a poor blind man, almost destitute of clothing, habitation, and friends. He was born at Waikapu, the central part of the low isthmus between the two divisions of the mountainous island of Maui, probably about the year 1785. His barbarous mother, following many of her unnatural and murderous countrywomen, attempted to bury him alive in his infancy; but he was rescued by a relative; and surviving the ravages of pestilence, war, and private violence, he reached the years of maturity.
...Like many of his countrymen of that dark period, he received a diminutive, degrading name, and was called Pu-a-a-i-ki, (Poo-ah-ah-ée-kee, little hog,) no faint shadow of his gross mind, his neglected childhood, and unrestrained youth. Having a shagged head of black hair, unshielded by a hat from tropical suns and showers, and, at middle age, a heard growing at full length under the chin, the rest being plucked out, he roamed shoeless, without moral or mental culture, without hope, and without a Saviour.
...Though the islands had, by Capt. Cook, been discovered, and introduced to the Christian world in 1778, yet, for half of "threescore years and ten," this poor pagan was surrounded by the unbroken darkness and the undiminished pollution of Hawaiian heathenism, and trained under the baleful influences of a senseless and cruel superstition. He possessed, therefore, the general characteristics of a nation of superstitious savages, who being utterly ignorant and regardless of the true God, and following their own appetites and vile imaginations, had prostituted their best powers to the worship of stocks and stones, volcanos and demons, human relics, sharks, birds, and creeping things.
...Poor, blind, infirm, and debased, he, as soon as able to walk, came with Honolii to our place of worship to hear for the first time the preaching of the gospel. His rude stature, below ordinary height, rendered diminutive by sickness; his scanty covering of bark-cloth, the rags of a prodigal; a malo — a narrow strip around his waist; and a kihei — a shawl-like piece over his shoulders; his shaded, meagre face; his defective, ruined eyes; his long black beard gathered in a knot under his chin for some heathen purpose; his feeble, swarthy, almost naked limbs; the total darkness of his soul; and the ravages and desolations in his whole being, occasioned by idolatry and sin, rendered him an object peculiarly pitiable — one of the most to be commiserated of all the human family.
The Publisher has copy-edited this book to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of the text to make it readable. This did not involve changing the substance of the text. Some books, due to age and other factors may contain imperfections. Since there are many books such as this one that are important and beneficial to literary interests, we have made it digitally available and have brought it back into print for the preservation of printed works of the past.
Contents:
Chapter I. Origin and heathen state of Bartimeus — Chapter II. His reception of the gospel, and his transition state — Chapter III. His removal to Lahaina — His progress at the new station, and admission to Christian fellowship — Chapter IV. His progress and influence as a Christian and friend of temperance at Lahaina — Chapter V. His visit, residence, and labors at Hilo — Chapter VI. His return to Maui — Residence at Wailuku — Lay-preaching — Chapter VII. His appointment as deacon — His official license to preach the gospel — Chapter VIII. His labors as an evangelist — Removal to Honuaula — Final visit to Wailuku— His death
Excerpts:
...The pioneers of the Christian mission sent by the American Board in 1819, to the Sandwich Islands, early found among the thousands of their degraded inhabitants, a poor blind man, almost destitute of clothing, habitation, and friends. He was born at Waikapu, the central part of the low isthmus between the two divisions of the mountainous island of Maui, probably about the year 1785. His barbarous mother, following many of her unnatural and murderous countrywomen, attempted to bury him alive in his infancy; but he was rescued by a relative; and surviving the ravages of pestilence, war, and private violence, he reached the years of maturity.
...Like many of his countrymen of that dark period, he received a diminutive, degrading name, and was called Pu-a-a-i-ki, (Poo-ah-ah-ée-kee, little hog,) no faint shadow of his gross mind, his neglected childhood, and unrestrained youth. Having a shagged head of black hair, unshielded by a hat from tropical suns and showers, and, at middle age, a heard growing at full length under the chin, the rest being plucked out, he roamed shoeless, without moral or mental culture, without hope, and without a Saviour.
...Though the islands had, by Capt. Cook, been discovered, and introduced to the Christian world in 1778, yet, for half of "threescore years and ten," this poor pagan was surrounded by the unbroken darkness and the undiminished pollution of Hawaiian heathenism, and trained under the baleful influences of a senseless and cruel superstition. He possessed, therefore, the general characteristics of a nation of superstitious savages, who being utterly ignorant and regardless of the true God, and following their own appetites and vile imaginations, had prostituted their best powers to the worship of stocks and stones, volcanos and demons, human relics, sharks, birds, and creeping things.
...Poor, blind, infirm, and debased, he, as soon as able to walk, came with Honolii to our place of worship to hear for the first time the preaching of the gospel. His rude stature, below ordinary height, rendered diminutive by sickness; his scanty covering of bark-cloth, the rags of a prodigal; a malo — a narrow strip around his waist; and a kihei — a shawl-like piece over his shoulders; his shaded, meagre face; his defective, ruined eyes; his long black beard gathered in a knot under his chin for some heathen purpose; his feeble, swarthy, almost naked limbs; the total darkness of his soul; and the ravages and desolations in his whole being, occasioned by idolatry and sin, rendered him an object peculiarly pitiable — one of the most to be commiserated of all the human family.
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