The acts of the apostles of the sea; (1909) (14578139859)

Identifier: actsofapostleso00amer (find matches)
Title: The acts of the apostles of the sea;
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: American seamen's friend society. (from old catalog) Hunter, George McPherson, (from old catalog) comp
Subjects: Merchant mariners
Publisher: (New York?)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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of Holland and the UnitedStates as a basis for co-operation in foreign missions, but hishopes were not realized. While in London in 1834. David Abeel was instrumental inorganizing the first Womans Missionary Society, called So-ciety for Female Education in China and the East. His ex-traordinary piety impressed people wherever he went. Alady in London said : There was nothing austere narrow-minded or extravagant in his religion. There was beau-tiful symmetry, a holiness, refinement and tenderness aboutit which struck the most ungodly. In January, 1845. he sailed for New York, doubtful. ashe says, which home I should reach first. The ship made u An Eighty Years Record of the Work one of the quickest passages on record. But Abeel was soenfeebled on his arrival that he spoke with the greatest dif-ficulty, and only once after his return was his voiqe heard atfamily prayers. He survived a little over a year, dying atAlbany, September 4, 1846. His remains were interred inGreenwood Cemetery.
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of the American Seamens Friend Society 13 THE PACIFIC ISLANDS THE FIRST SEAMENS CHURCH To Captain James Cook, the intrepid English navigator, belongs thehonor of first visiting the Sandwich Islands in the year 1779. And the firstChristian service of any kind was the one held at the funeral of CaptainCook, on February 21, 1779. Captain King, his successor, records: In the afternoon the bones (of Captain Cook) havingbeen put into a coffin and the service read over them, theywere committed to the deep with the usual military honors.What our feelings were on this occasion I leave the world toconceive; those present know that it is not in my power toexpress them. In the year 1790 an American ship called the Fair American waswrecked. All of the crew were killed or eaten, two only being spared,John Young and Isaac Davis. Evidently they had been men of character,some degree of piety, combined with a New England shrewdness in trad-ing. The Journal of John Young still exists, showing a combinat