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Show next morning:, however, one of the city papers contained ran advertis- I ment giving notice that a-vessel was i to sail to-morrow morning. for China and would touch at the Sandwich Islands,, whereupon Elder ' Cannon called a council where it was decided that I should go on the vessel and be in Honolulu to meet in general Conference on the 6th of October and to prepare the way for the arrival of the elders who should follow me &c. Forthwith I engaged to take steerage passage on board the Clipper Clip-per Ship John Land at $32.00, and on the 4th of September we dropped i anchor at Honolulu, where I met the President of the Mission and several Elders who were living up stairs in our old .meeting house. It will be remembered that I filled a mission to these Islands years before, be-fore, i .. ."' :-,'r .. -; Missionary. To Be Continued. J Incidents. Continued. The next day we resumed our . - visiting the priests and the first was a Mr. Scott whom we were told got ten thousand dollars annually for , , preaching, but we read in a paper afterwards that he was paid twelve thousand. We found him like the rest we had visited and refused to hear us and said he did not want to know anything about Mormonism and 'Mid not thank us for coming into his Study and disturding him while studying the word of God," but we did not leave him without bearing our testimony of the great Latter-day work. He demanded of us a sign and wanted us to r peak in tongues (Elder Rainy and I winked at each other, thinking to have a little fun.) We asked Scott if he was willing to let us preach in his church on those conditions, if so, perhaps we would accomodate him, but he refused even on these erounds. ,7e called on a Mr. Lacy, another ' Reverend gentleman He . has , a fine church very near the center of the city, but our interview with him was very short. He had just been sent for to attend a f uneral and was on the eve of leaving as we called. He manifested a good spirit , and said he did not know anything about the Mormon religion and would be glad to have us give him another call, which we promised to do. The |