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Edwin Sebastian Butz (1864 – July 1956) was a Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) missionary who was active in Oceania and in Australia. ==Missionary career== Edwin Sebastian Butz was born in 1864 in the United States. In 1895 he came to the South Pacific with his wife Florence and daughter Alma on the third voyage of the SDA schooner ''Pitcairn''. They served first on Pitcairn Island, then in the early days of the Adventist mission in Tonga. They arrived in Tonga on 29 September 1896 with Sarah and Maria Young, two nursing trainees from Pitcairn Island. There they joined the first SDA missionaries, Edward Hilliard and his wife Ida, who had arrived the previous year. The Butz's initially had difficulty being accepted, as they were Americans and most Europeans in Tonga were British. This was eased by Florence Butz's provision of medical services. The Butz's tried to establish a permanent mission, but were mainly limited to working with the small ''papalagi'' (European) colony. They made sporadic missionary efforts in the islands of Haʻapai and Tongatapu. In June 1899 the ''Pitcairn'' again visited, bringing a small prefabricated building that was used at first as a mission home and as a chapel. After 18 months it was taken apart and rebuilt as the small Nukuʻalofa church, . The Butz's were taken to Vavaʻu on the ''Pitcairn'', since it was thought that there were too many missionaries at Nuku'alofa, but they returned after the Hilliards left later in 1899. In 1901 Butz attended the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventists in Battle Creek College, where he was ordained to the ministry. In Tonga Butz recognized but failed to address the language problem. He noted that the Tongans were very interested in learning English. Until 1905 at least half of the pupils at the Adventist schools were European, or partly European, and the lessons were given in English. The Butz family left Tonga on 27 December 1905. In ten years Butz had baptized two Tongans and twelve Europeans. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edwin Butz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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