BINGHAM, Hiram

[s. 109] : born at Bennington, Vt., October 30, 1789; graduated at Middle bury Bins-yne Blliid; Alisislons to 9Z Name also written College, 1816, at And over Theological Seminary, 1819. visit to the foreign mi ion school at included in those of Bankura. Bishenpore. Cornwall, Ct., while Henry Obookiah was there awakened in him a desire to carry the Gospel to the Sandwich Islands. He was ordained September 29, 1819; sailed October 23 of the same year as a mi ionary of the ABCFM and was stationed His undaunted courage, inflexible at Honolulu. will, combined with his good nature and cheerfulne , fitted him to meet the opposition in that He returned to the stronghold of wickedne . United States in 1841 on account of the ill health Six years after his return he of Mrs. Bingham. published History of the Mi ion down to 1845, in an octavo volume of 600 pages, a work of great historic value. He died in 1869 after a brief ill- BISHOP, Artemus: Born at Pompey, N. Y., December 30, 1795; graduated at Union College, 1819, and Princeton Theological Seminary, A ne . BING-YAE. See PlNG-YANG-HSIEN. BIRD, Rev. William: Died August 30, 1901. On the 17th of August, 1901, Rev. William Bird celebrated the 79th anniversary of his birthday. He had entered on his fiftieth year of service in the Syria Mi ion. He first came to Syria in 1823 as an infant. When his parents and their a ociates were obliged to flee from Syria, this child became treasurer of the Syria Mi ion, his bed and pillow being the safe deposit vaults for the cash, thus eluding the rapacity of the Turkish officials and the violence of a lawle populace. Not long after, when he returned a second time, with his parents, to Beirut, the entire Protestant community came in a little boat to meet them. It consisted of two men. In 1853 Mr. and Mrs. William Bird began their mi ionary career (under the ABCFM), the last twenty years of which was spent in the service of the Presbyterian Board (North). Having spent his childhood in Syria, the difficult Arabic language was practically his vernacular. His life was full of zeal and earnestne and self- He preached with power and marked He was loved and honored by the people. Wherever he went he was welcomed. He ate with the people and slept as they slept when on his mi ionary tours, winning their confidence and friendship by identifying himself with them, as few mi ionaries are able to do. He was particularly attractive in his school work and enthusiastically welcomed by all children. He was loved and honored by all who knew him, and is deeply mourned by all his a ociates and acquaint denial. effect. ances. BIRI SIRl: A village on the borders of A am Eastern Bengal, India, N. E. of Nasirabad; station of the Victorian Baptist Foreign Mi ion Society (1893), with 31 native workers, 20 outstations, 20 chapels, 18 Sunday schools, 20 village schools, 1 training school for women workers and 512 profe ing Christians. in BIRTLE A town in the western part of Manitoba, Canada; station of the PCC (1883), with 1: 1822; sailed as a mi ionary of the ABCFM in the reen for cements for the Sandwich Islands, 1822. He was stationed at Kailua, and was a ociated with Mr. Thurston in the translation of the Bible. After residing twelve years at Kailua, he removed to Ewa, on Oahu, where he labored twenty years with great succe . Here he translated Pilgrim’s Progre and many other books. He never left the islands except once,, and that as a delegate to the Marques as Mi ion, in 1858. He died at Honolulu, December 18, 1872. first BISRAMPUR: A town in Chota Nagpur, Bengal, India; station of the German Evangelical Synod Mi ionary Society, U. S. A. (1869), with 2 mi ionaries, 1 mi ionary’s wife, 1 mi ionary woman (physician), 22 native workers, men and. women, 9 outstations, 10 chapels, 1 Sunday school, 6 village schools, 1 high school, 1 industrial school, 1 theological seminary, 1 orphanage,, a hospital, a dispensary, and 670 communicants. 110