GUJRAT

[s. 299] : A town in the Punjab, North India, between the rivers Chenab and Jhelum, 70 miles north of Lahore. Climate, unusually changeable, subject to very severe extremes of temperature. The place has abundant water and good It is noted for its bra ware and sanitation. Population (1891), 18,100, inlaid metal work. Station of of whom 12,700 are Mohammedans. the Church of Scotland Foreign Mi ion Committee (1865) and of the Church of Scotland Woman’s A ociation for Foreign Mi ions (1877), with a hospital, dispensary, orphanage, and 17 mi ionaries, men and women. See Kulbabga. A town in the Bombay Presidency, India, situated 53 miles south of Bijapur. Population, 15,500, of whom 13,600 are Hmdus. Station of the Basel Mi ionary Society (1851), with (1903) 4 mi ionaries, 1 mi ionary’s wife, 21 native workers, men and women; 4 outstations, 6 day schools, and 668 profe ed Christians. GULICK, Luther Halsey, M. D.: Born June His parents were 10, 1828; died April 8, 1891. mi ionaries in Hawaii when the subject of this sketch was born, and his boyhood days were spent at Koloa, with a year at school in Honolulu. Then came the trip to the United States, the country chosen by his parents for better educaIn 1847 he entered the New tional advantages. York College of Physicians and Surgeons, and each Sunday found him engaged in city mi ion work. In 1851 the Hawaiian Mi ionary Society GULBARGA. GULEDGUDD: Gnayaqnll Gmupnr was formed as auxiliary to the American Board; and Mr. Gulick learned that a mi ion to one of the Mic rones i an Islands had been projected, and that the Hawaiian Island Mi ion was to act upon it the following May. He immediately offered himself to the American Board, and the intervening months were spent in hospital practise in New York City, in further study of Greek and Hebrew, and in attendance upon lectures. On October 29, 1851, Dr. Gulick was married to Mi Louisa Lewis, and on November 18 they sailed from Boston to the islands of Mic rones i a. On their way out they spent several days at Hawaii, and on September 6, 1852, they reached the island of Ponape, the largest of forty eight islands which form the Caroline group, and the one by which all Mic rones i a had been judged. He was at Dr. Gulick’s labors were multiform. once physician, carpenter, student, cook, shoemaker, dre maker, and preacher. In 1854 he was stricken with smallpox, an epidemic of which raged through half the year. As soon as he recovered he journeyed, preached and translated for his prostrate people as never before; and they, with renewed zeal, began their reading, writing, and Bible work. A year later Dr. Gulick helped to build the schoolhouse, chapel and hospital; and, in 1857, came their first crude printing pre . In October, 1860, after nine years of continuous service. Dr. Gulick left Mic rones i a for Honolulu, and from there he visited the United States. In 1863 he was again in Hawaii, having accepted the position of Secretary of the Board of the Hawaiian Evangelical A ociation. In 1870 his After twenty five years labors at Hawaii ended. of work for the American Board he received a call from the American Bible Society, and Japan and China were offered to him as a field of labor. In 1 880 he began a new era of Bible work in Japan; he founded the Bible house at Yokohama in his estimation one of the great succe es of his life. In 1881 the large field of China was a igned to him; and from a circulation of 74,800 volumes of the Bible in 1878, the number grew to 252,875 On the plain gray granite monument in 1887. that marks the grave of Luther Halsey Gulick at Springfield, Ma ., are these words: “For forty years a foreign mi ionary.” Born at Freehold, N. J., graduated at Princeton College 1825, and at Princeton Theological Seminary GULICK, Peter J.: March 12, 1797; 1827; sailed November 3, the same year, a mi ionary of the ABCFM, with the second reenforce ment for the Sandwich Islands. He was stationed first atWaimea; then Koloa, on Molokai, till 1847; then at Waialua, Oahu, till 1857, when he removed In 1874, after forty-seven years of to Honolulu. service, he went with his wife and daughter to reside with his son, O. H. Gulick, in Japan. He died Six of his children in Kobe, December 8, 1877. became mi ionaries of the American Board. 299