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A narrative of five youth from the Sandwich islands, now receiving an education in this country

Writer: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

Date: 1816

Type: Booklet

Medium: Engraving on paper

Credit Line: Digitalized by Google

Publisher: New-York: Printed by J. Seymour, no. 49 John-street.

Description: It is worthy of remark, that in the providence of God, great effects result from apparently little causes. This remark is strikingly illustrated in the history of the Church. The most signal deliverances and successes have proceeded from small beginnings; and the most illustrious displays of divine power and grace, have been made in the use of the feeblest instruments. " The kingdom of heaven islike to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs ; and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof." Again,"The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened ."Moses, Paul, and Luther, were once in their cradles. The whole Christian church once comprised but eleven poor men, and they were enclosed in an upper room, in Jerusalem.

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Memoirs of Samuel J. Mills

Writter: Spring, Gardiner

Date: 1820

Type: Book, Hard Cover

Medium: Engraving on paper

Credit Line: Digitalized by Google

Publisher: The New-York Evangelical Missionary Society

Description: Samuel John Mills Jr. (April 12, 1783 - June 16, 1818) was an American preacher and missionary from Connecticut. He is known for contributing to the organization of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and to the formation of the American Colonization Society in 1817. The latter was intended to establish a colony in West Africa as a destination for free American blacks.

Wake, Isles of the South

Writter: Tapan, William

Date: 1820

Type: Manuscript

Medium: Ink on paper

Credit Line: Digitalized by Mo’olelo Kū’i’o

Publisher: N/A

Description: Nineteenth century manuscript of the music and lyrics on two conjugate leaves, 102x190mm. Tappan wrote the lyrics to be sung at the departure of the missionaries - the Stewarts and Betsey Stockton - to Hawaii in 1822 and William Hauser wrote the music that is printed in the 'Southern Harmony' (1835) and associated with the song now.

A Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands

Writter: Bingham, Hiram

Date: 1855

Type: Book, Hard Cover

Medium: Engraving on paper

Credit Line: Digitalized by Google

Publisher: The New-York Evangelical Missionary Society

Description: A Residence of Twenty-One Years in the Sandwich Islands, by the Reverend Hiram Bingham, was first printed in New York in 1847. The book provides a panoramic history of Hawaii from before its discovery in 1778 by Captain James Cook up to 1845.