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Show Here we were met by his highness, the Catholic priest, who wanted to do all the talking. We told him if he desired to talk with us, we must have half the time. He stated that if Mormonism was true, then Christ had told a falsehood, for when he was here on earth he had said, "On this rock I will build my Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it, hence there had not been a falling away from the true Church." He gave us no chance to even slip a word in edgeways edge-ways in reply, therefore we dismissed our meeting and appointed the afternoon after-noon of the next day to preach, at the same place, which we did and baptized Six persons. Written for The Uniom. PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. (Continued) About this time I and elder Farrer went to a place on the Islamd of Oahu where there were a Calvinist and a Catholic priest residing, whose churches were less than two miles apart, both having fine chapels to preach in, and the whole neighborhood., neighbor-hood., more or less, members of their churches. The natives on learning who we were; opened their doors for us to preach, and seemed very interested in our message. We had held a few meetings when we were told that the Catholic Priest had said that we were afraid to see him. So, the next day we called upon his highness. He was a Frenchman and could not speak english and we could not talk french, so our conversation con-versation was done in the native language. He was very polite and kind and enquired if we had been to dinner. Learning we had not, he soon provided boiled Kalo and beef, J probably the best he had, which we relished very much. He said he was busily engaged translatidg the New Testament into the native language, that the Protestant trans lation was incorrect in a great many places. Soon our conversation turned on religion. We asked the privilege to preach in his meeting house, but he would not grant it. The next day we called on a white man who said he came to the Islands in 1S16, married a native lady and raised a family. He treated us very well and gave us dinner, consisting of Sea biscuit, Coffee, sweet bread and butter. When we told him who we were, what our business was, &c, he said he did not dispute what we said, neither did he feel to find fault with any person on account of their religion, but as for himself he "had a belief that he meant to stick to and did not mean to be turned away from it," and seemed to manifest a desire, that we leave his house, which we did, thanking him for the dinner he had given us. We then gave the Calvinist preah-er preah-er a call and asked to be allowed to preach in his church. His name was Emerson. He flew into a passion pas-sion and accused us of coming to the Islands to divide the Church of Christ and said our "doctrine was a distorted doctrine of the Bible, and it was from the Devil." Leaving Emerson we went to fill an appointment, and we found the house full of natives waiting for us. 1 |