Excerpt from Foreign Mission Work of American Friends: A Brief History of Their Work From the Beginning to the Year 1912

I have been asked to tell the story of the early Foreign Mission work of American Friends, that which was done by individuals working through the organization of English Friends, as in the case of Louis and Sarah Street and of Elkanah and Irene Beard, or through the regular channels of the Society as in that of Eli and Sybil Jones.

Allen Jay in his autobiography (page 298) says, "The earliest, so far as I know or recollect, of missionaries going forth from us to other lands were Joel and Hannah E. Bean, of Iowa (then part of Indiana Yearly Meeting)." In tenth month, 1860, they were liberated according to the order of Friends "to visit in the love of the Gospel the inhabitants of the Sandwich Islands, and to reside for some time among them." They sailed from New York in sixth month, 1861, and after about two months travel reached Honolulu. The band of early missionaries of the American Board (Congregational) were then in the vigor of their lifework. Our Friends were warmly welcomed by them. They were privileged to address a very large proportion of the native population (about 71,000). Their fellowship with the missionaries of the island was most cordial. They were invited by them to remain and take one branch of the work (that of female education) under their care, but feeling that their special mission was completed, after nine months of service, they returned home.

Eli and Sybil Jones were two New England ministers of remarkable power who in the early sixties felt called to an extended work in foreign lands. They followed the usual course of friends ministers, taking out a minute for religious service in England, and if way should open for it in Africa and Palestine as well.

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