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Show Two days afterward we were visited vis-ited by the Catholic Priest. He: wanted a private conversation with us, as he believed we were honest and wanted to do right, ,but was in an error and that he believed he could convert us and we be made Catholic Friests. There were a number of natives present whom we saw were very anxious to hear what was said. We told his holiness that we were willing to talk with him either in public or private, but would rather talk in public so the natives could hear what we said and judge for themselves. them-selves. He said our talk would all be a mystery to them and they could not understand, hence it would be better to have our conversation private, and therefore to accomodate his highness we went off and were alone with him, and we talked until a shower of rain forced us to seek shelter, which was about half a day. The next day we held meeting and baptized four more, and while we were confirming them, in came the Priest, fairly foaming with raze. and he threatened us with the judgements judge-ments of God, if we did not forsake for-sake our ways and turn Catholics, and told the people not to keep us about their houses, for, if they did, God would be angry and would smite them with severe judgements, etc. The next morning a good supply of roasted Kid and Kalo was brought for our breaskfast and for the day, which we very much enjoyed. This did not look as though the people were going to desert us! In the afternoon of the same day we were visited by Emerson, the Calvinist Priest. The Natives saw him coming com-ing and a croud followed him to hear what we had to say, but when he entered and began to talk, he appeared to be dumbfounded and said but little, but wanted the Natives to turn us away and not allow us about them. The Natives told us that the Catholic Priest, when he left us the day before, went and saw Emerson and urged him to use his influence to have the people not receive us nor allow us about their houses, etc. A number of Natives tarried until late at night, talking and enquiring after the truth of the kingdom, and the next morning we were treated to another dish of roasted Kid meat and Kalo. This did not seem to us like being turned away. The Sunday Sun-day following we held 2 meetings and baptized 4 more persons. Thus we kept on preaching and baptizing until we build up a large branch ot the Church, between the two Priests, who did not live two miles apart. It was now the last of February, 1853, and we got word of the arrival of elders from Utah, and that Prest. Lewis desired us to come to Hon-.olulu, Hon-.olulu, to meet in general council. We lost no time going. When we met, I thought those men the handsomest hand-somest set of men I ever saw. Their names were, Wm. Mcl'ride, Ephraim Green, Edgarton Snyder, James Lamson, Thomas Karren, Nathan Tanner, Redrick Aired Red-din Red-din Aired, and Benjamin F. Tohnson. II. VV. B. Written for The Union. PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. The next day we held two meetings meet-ings and find our congregations are increasing, notwithstanding the opposition of the priests, and on the following Sunday we held two meetings meet-ings and baptized six persons, and while attending to the ordinance, a constable threatend to arrest us and have us fined for breaking the sabbath, sab-bath, if we did not cease. There happened to be a Lunakanawai (Justice of the peace) present who told the constable that we had the right to baptize on any day, Sunday not excepted, and therefore we could not be fined for baptizing on Sunday. |