Show FOREIGN COR correspondence corresponded nce WAILUKU MAUI SANDWICH ISLANDS sunday evening oct ad 1852 2 DEAR COUSIN I 1 am well and feel in pretty good spiris spir ts the work is going ahead here finely hundreds of natives have been bap baptized baptised tided sed and a number of foreigners we have conference the 6 h of this mouth month 1 did think of not writing until after conference but learning this thia evening that br perkins would leave before I 1 thought I 1 would write a line or two by lamp light for I 1 am m in ia a hurry to solid sand this b by y br hawkins who will I 1 leave leave here tonight to night by moon shine to go to lahaina La haSna on oil purpose to see br perkins before he leaves a distance of 25 miles it has been very sickly here this season with the remittent bilious fever and many have died some of the brethren brethren had a light touch of it the brethren are all well and in fine spirits the priests are down on us doing 1 believe all they can i to keep the nations from obeying the gospel some i of the natives that belong to their church have told me they believed our preaching and that we were right and wanted to obey it but they said they were air afraid aid it appears that tha natives as a general thing have not courage as yet to come out when they believe and obey for fear of their popularity for the missionaries tell them we wa are ignorant men never went to a high school and they are apt to measure men mea by I 1 their learning as many of them have been taught in what they edit call it a high school kept by missionaries at I 1 lahai if adjudge a judge or sheriff or lawyer believes oar doctrine lie he is afraid to join for fear of loosing hs office it is not the case with all but bat with many for we have got it is pres presumed tined some of ithe smartest men these islands can call aford do you think these thesa saints will ever be gathered to california or in the valley of tile the mountains or will they gather on these islands and have temples built fcc there are some as fine looking men among the them as I 1 ever aver saw s vw and a kinder hearted people I 1 hayo haye never seen and some of them are wc wealthy althy those that hat have obeyed the gospel are mostly poor and of the lower lon lass class but the hig big ones are beginning I 1 think to look k into lit I 1 was ill in honolulu some time ago mid and the king declared publicly that he wanted to see the mormon who hud had talked with the rev mr parker a missionary and said that his co courtie urtle a had been deceiving him and a messenger came for me but I 1 had just left the city and I 1 was told they put a double guard around him afterwards I 1 am told he leans towards the catholics having got a glimpse glimp at priesthood after Confes conference ence I 1 shall return to tile the island of I 1 oahu bahu please write me again IF ite direct cs as you did before to honolulu S 1 I I 1 please remember me to my father and family I 1 have written several letters to lo the valley but have received teo elved none but the two I 1 mentioned from yourself and the presidency I 1 am looking every ship that comes for letters I 1 do riot not know when I 1 shall come home not perhaps until our places are filled with new elders aiom home br lewis has written for some 8 or 10 we look for them sometime time next summer elder george cannon is translating the book of mormon into the hawaiian language I 1 think it will do great good when in print and the natives are anxious to riad read it give my iny love to all inquiring friends tell them I 1 want letters from them I 1 would like to hear from jesse HENRY W BIGLER gr GEORGE orge A SMITH PS P S the white brethren are anxious to gather with the saints in the valley and are making preparations to leave here as soon as possible gifts of healing and visions and prophecy are among the saints hero here H W B AN ANSWER swEat the the saints will gather continent when opportunity presents but there is no lar haste from the sandwich islands till the work is fully established let the natives and whites baptis ed there bo be ordained and sent forth to preach on oil the various islands as fast as the spirit of wisdom and revelation shall dictate the elders br lew lewis wrote for were sent last september conference as the lord said on another 0 occasion eca sion before ye called I 1 answered ed 1 |