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"The World Creeps In": Hiram Bingham Iii And The Decline In Missionary Fervor, Char Miller
"The World Creeps In": Hiram Bingham Iii And The Decline In Missionary Fervor, Char Miller
Pomona Faculty Publications and Research
To understand how and why Hiram Bingham III altered the course of his family's historical commitment to missionary service, one must recognize, as he later would, that the world in which he was raised was unlike that of his father, Hiram Bingham, Jr. The father had wanted his son to carry on in the family's service to God, but the roadblocks to the senior Bingham's desires to mold his son in his own image were numerous and interrelated: the family environment into which the child was born, the interaction of that nucleus with the larger community of Honolulu, and the …
"Teach Me O My God": The Journal Of Hiram Bingham (1815-1816), Char Miller
"Teach Me O My God": The Journal Of Hiram Bingham (1815-1816), Char Miller
Pomona Faculty Publications and Research
During his years at college and in seminary, Bingham kept a journal which provides insights about the forces behind his own foreign missionary work in particular and those underlying the "invisible" Americans in general.
The Making Of A Missionary: Hiram Bingham's Odyssey, Char Miller
The Making Of A Missionary: Hiram Bingham's Odyssey, Char Miller
Pomona Faculty Publications and Research
Throughout his twenty year tenure as minister of the mission church in Honolulu, Hiram Bingham earned hostile testimonials. Foreign residents and foreign visitors were virtually unanimous in their dislike for the meddlesome missionary. American visitors were appalled by Bingham's influence and actions: W.S. Ruschenberger, for instance, believed a "refined and elegant" missionary was more suitable than a "strong preacher." Similar sentiments were expressed by some of Bingham's colleagues. Asa Thurston complained that his co-worker was "too much disposed to take precedence of [me]"; later missionaries to Hawaii felt that Bingham assumed too much in the governance of the mission. Historians …