Life and Light for Woman Volume 28 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...various sources, the writer desires to acknowledge his special indebtedness to the Rev. E. E. Strong, D.D., to whose valuable and most interesting article in the June number of the Review of Reviews he would refer all who may wish to study the subject further. The connection of the American Board with the Caroline Islands began in the year 1852, when the Rev. L. H. Gulick, M.D., the Rev. Mr. Sturgis, with one other American missionary and their wives, together with two Hawaiian missionary families, were sent to Ponape and Kusaie, two of the five or six more or less mountainous islands of Micronesia, which comprises the Caroline, the Marshall, and the Gilbert Islands, all of which lie within a few degrees of the equator. The Carolines extend from four degrees to ten degrees north latitude, and from one hundred and thirty-two degrees to one hundred and sixty-two degrees west from Greenwich. For the most part these groups consist of small coral islands, which rise only six or eight feet above the level of the sea. The flora of these low islands is limited, and the inhabitants subsist almost exclusively upon the breadfruit and the fruit of the cocoa palm and the pandanus. The temperature varies from seventy-four degrees to eight-seven degrees Fahrenheit. In the few hilly or mountainous islands there is opportunity for a more varied life, and it is these that the missionaries have selected for residence, and from them they go forth for work in the neighboring islands. Consequently the need of a missionary ship was early felt, and in 1856 the first Morning Star was built, which has been followed by three others, the last a barkentine of four hundred and thirty tons, with auxiliary steam power. Two smaller vessels, the Robert Logan and the Hiram Bingham, have also...