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1 " After Hiram Bingham built the first church on Oahu the student recalls, " When it was completed some of the natives said among themselves, 'That house of worship built by the haoles is a place in which they will pray us all to death. It is meant to kill us. "
2 " By journey's end the brides were much better acquainted with their grooms and more or less pleased with the matches. Sybil Bingham wrote in her diary, thanking God for answering her prayer for filling " the void" with a husband like Hiram, a " treasure rich and undeserved." Having read his insufferable memoir, " A Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands" , all I can say is: I'm happy for her? "
