Missionary Musings
Jul. 28th, 2005 12:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsI suddenly realize that it's been a year since I worked on the missionary project, and now that my downtime is coming to a close, I'm annotating Hiram's diary in pencil, looking up quotes and other info for future scanning.
And why have I been putting off the diary? Because I need to scan, correct, and enter 200-plus pages of this:
"The object for which the missionaries felt themselves impelled to visit the Hawaiian race, was to honor God, by making known his will, and to benefit those heathen tribes, by making them acquainted with the way of life, -- to turn them from their follies and crimes, idolatries and oppressions, to the service and enjoyment of the living God and adorable Redeemer, -- to give them the Bible in their own tongue, with ability to read it for themselves, -- to introduce and extend among them the more useful arts and usages of civilized and Christianized society, and to fill the habitable parts of those important islands with schools and churches, fruitful fields, and pleasant dwellings."
Exact quote, including punctuation, from pages 60-61 of A Residence of Twenty-One Years in the Sandwich Islands.
Page-turner it ain't. And he's going out of his way to NOT mention Thomas Holman. Which is why I'm going to annotate this, but try to focus on the diaries.
And why have I been putting off the diary? Because I need to scan, correct, and enter 200-plus pages of this:
"The object for which the missionaries felt themselves impelled to visit the Hawaiian race, was to honor God, by making known his will, and to benefit those heathen tribes, by making them acquainted with the way of life, -- to turn them from their follies and crimes, idolatries and oppressions, to the service and enjoyment of the living God and adorable Redeemer, -- to give them the Bible in their own tongue, with ability to read it for themselves, -- to introduce and extend among them the more useful arts and usages of civilized and Christianized society, and to fill the habitable parts of those important islands with schools and churches, fruitful fields, and pleasant dwellings."
Exact quote, including punctuation, from pages 60-61 of A Residence of Twenty-One Years in the Sandwich Islands.
Page-turner it ain't. And he's going out of his way to NOT mention Thomas Holman. Which is why I'm going to annotate this, but try to focus on the diaries.
