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Show HURRICANE IN THE PACIFIC. Hnapni ViHited by rur?f km Minnionary Work On tho Group' Hagai, l.ifuka, lUnpai, Jan 6, iS-. To ih I dnon Thinking a ihort account ol the hur rlcane wiih which we have Jiwt been visited and of the work vi the VJAvt in thit part of the vineyard would be interfiling in-terfiling to the readers of the Nmvh, 1 forward Hie foilowlrg for publication. ' On December HiS, KUIrrn Alfred M. Durham, Alired A. Kafued and Thomaa I). Adam returned from the Uland of TangaUbu where the latter two had gone to spend Chrittnai, and Elder Durham had accompanied them back to make a visit through the .Inapai gruup. We were situated at this village on the evening of January 3rd, !HA when about 8 o'clock a gale of wind began be-gan to blow I rum the north -nut, which Increased greatly, and In a short time a regular hurricane was sweeping thlngn before It. The house in which we were located, did comddrrable rocking from side to tide, but, like the one founded on a rock. It fell not. The hurricane had not been upon us long, when a loud knock was heard at the door, and upon opening, we found a family of natives whose house had fallen in, and they had come to seek ahelter, which we freely gave them. Hy this time the wind was ( something terrible, and upon looking out we could see a numlier of houses near by which had (alien, and the ground wan literally roveretl with cocoa-nuts cocoa-nuts and fallen trees. The wind kepi up until ia o'clock that mulit, when 11 began to abate a little, and we decided to go over to Brother James K. l.ileVs ' ' place and see how he and family had weathered the storm. We were pleaded to find upon our arrival, that ail was well with them; and as thtir house was much safer than ours we thought it brii to spend the remainder of the niicht with them, so at 1 o'clock p. m. all retired to rest. ' The wind had nearly ceased when we arose on the morning of the 4th, and the stent that met our eyes uion emrr Ing from the house was something terri ', ble. More than half of the native houses had fallen, and the ground was thickly U covered with uprooted trees, fruit, t , cocoa nuts, etc. From this sight of do struction we went down on the aea beach ' toe what had become of all the boats which were anchored in the harUr the night previous. We were not much surprised to see the West Australian, a Norwegian, and the Wooaung, a tier-man tier-man bantu?, piled high on the reefs. Both weie dismasted and greatly darn-' darn-' aed. Later in the day it was our privi- ' ' leee- to visit these wrecked vessels, where we learned that no Uvea were lost, but the vessels will likely be abandoned, aban-doned, as any attempt to repair them would only be a waste of means. When the sun came up with Its burn ing hem, nearly every vestige of vegcu tiou became willed and dead, as though a fire had swept over the entire island; this was caused by the salt water which was blown in from the sea. Most all the native food, aurh as yam, bread fruit, bananas and oranges are a total failure, which will causa this people t to know what want is fur some time to come. As yet I have heard ol no lives being lost, and the damage done to ' property is not estimated, but it will be ' quit heavy, j MIKSIUNAKY LABOR. The first Elders of the Church o lesus Christ of I.atterday Saints lan hd on this island in June 193, and since Kta! lime twelve convert hive been tunde; threr of which have removed to Siiina, on has died and the rest are in -uch a scattered condition that it is difficult diffi-cult t'i organize lr,rm into a branch. I'hrre are, at the present time, four Kl ders lahoting un this group, and we have succeeded in visiimg some seven i f the sixteen Hands which are Inhabited, In-habited, and meetings have been hM on all that we have thus far reached. We tire anxious to visit as many more as jmihie, so that all may have the pi i vi-lege vi-lege tl embracing or rejecting the Gospel. Gos-pel. We find the people very slow lo give heed to the Oi.siel meaae:e which we are striving to spread among them; but we r- altR that II they do not repent when called upon to do so by the Klders, God will visit th-tn with: "Alter your testimony Cometh the testimony ol earthquakes, thai shall cause groaning in the midst of tier, and men shall lall on the ground, and not be able to stand; am also cmeth the testimony of the voice of thun'teringa, and the voice of lightnings, and the voice of tempests, .mil the voice of the waves of ttie sea heaving themselves bcyoud their We do not feel to get discouraged in our labors, hut will press on, striving to sow the seed of righteousness, to tend and walt-r the same, and wail for God to give the ln rease. Kver praying lor the weliare of Ion, and for the work of the Lord in all the world, 1 am your brother in the Gospel of Christ, Thomas D. Auahs |