| Show ELDERS CORRESPOND correspondence ence INCE f r I 1 tt t t t M i A 6 A i jense JERSE jersett Tf 1 f yn elder W CD unbar to elder elden daniel mcintosh 1 CI rannel tANNEL ISLANDS j jw un 16 1855 1853 j flin on the 0 of march I 1 started star tedy with eider elder lamoreaux la moreaux and sud ul saints taints front from the tha channel Tr lands for tor liver at the them times time in addition to disease in my ray spine and nd kidneys were so affected alti ctol that I 1 could not speak an mint WInt ites without coughing and spitting blood the saints though tl wap was mad road in undertaking a journey in going a deck passenger ger get from jersey to plymouth PI mouth p then to dublin and from thence to liverpool when I 1 arrived there it YOU had seen men me I 1 guess you would have bare ordered mv my commin coffin iff when the brethren saw me they wanted to get a petition for me to be bi tent home but I 1 d not permit their kindness but asked them to lay their hands upon me roe instead cro dro franklin invited ng us to hold bold a meeting at his bis rooms in hl his hix new office W we mt met and it t the spirit of god n was as mot t burning then it t nv n erwa now how now did we feely feels feel teel arpe proud and full of pomposity no sir wf we I 1 fi ft tilt tiit lt it chumbl as 11 children every heart was wag full to breaf owing too ful tar far utterance however how bow ever somes ome a oke but ably tb ev were afra d ti t give vent to their feeling forit for it they had bad have kave lifted the roof of the hause house but let as br frankln Trank ln was ws just fast taking possess lm we kept kept the cc spirit subject to ta the prophet Woul ont it have brigham and heber heher good if they had been behind the toor door loor and heard their boys wm and jos JOB speaking by the power of the holy noly ghost geo D grant Gran also aiso little littie do they know what wisdom and intelligence are in them to see them in inthe the mountains and ilear hear them here Is asmuth as touch a contrast as seeing me in the 11 pulpit 11 and on the cc stare sta stace gea true they cannot ennan iye lye like some but a hail half an hour hours talk from them bal his more influence and power with the faint than an I 1 lifur and a balba di discourse course delivered grammatically and scientifically tolg this has caused caus d a little jealousy but it aught ought not for such ought rather to learn abst there Is power la 1 the holy priesthood and that no flesh shoud should alery learning education and oratory are good in ther tiser place if we yve would let the spirit operate them and siva give god goethe the glory but bat when a man becomes so learned that mccan icban preach as well without the spirit as with ith its if I 1 ahta te Is s getting in the dark ste tte haq had alood time at onn oar meeting em frankiin franklin and sancer gave cave us some gome good instruction and we prop hesie hegie 1 ans and ans blessed rne rae another I 1 got anointed and mccough my cough coush efti if a and N my an gs 4 were wera ere healed directly I 1 suppose I 1 had bad not mot falth faith enoish to have hire all my infirmities removed at eee eoe enee ice therefore there fyre I 1 must bear them as bett I 1 can chere there are arp brittan brethren in ulah ufah utah who went from jerset jersey who kho their own account are saving lots lofts of money and an property I 1 think they to be ashani erd frd t to send such I 1 accounts why dont they pdt put some 0 of it mato tato the P E fund and nd send for some gome of their poor bretton who are dying gradually for want of bread to eat 0 but ther thet hey have got to be lie comfortable themselves ani nl i I 1 rear carl cari nothing about those they have left behind I 1 like tg to laik lalk ik to them for ten minutes upon the sub jec jet J cl t tie tle e aiole ml MIR syon slon SIon I 1 think thinks on ony contains about 1 who are ara called maints taints a number of tiem chem are in frince france lint at nobody lio iio bodyk knows anything about thin thia th ia about 6 years vears a so 0 o theryl MCA i ve were ra about baptized here heie tl tle e most of them ly by myself iny inT seif self a goodly number num berof it them have cave emigrated enil grated and I 1 haye hare lut jut come in ame to cut off a few scores of thi me m it Is vexing to do so but the tree will not while so many mant rouen branches are re attached tolt to jt fam giad glad I 1 am liere I 1 wall w lil lii ill do whit what what good I 1 cans can and leave the result in the hands of god Is in th abs tbs s island iland they are mad against plurality ani aal and a a large larger r little hell heli of at adultery and whoredom than this illard island does not exist it being out of the he way ways gents gerits can keep a here and spend the summer with them how many i there are who dont know their father it I 1 Is ird hard to sar far the very men who the saints aint a kere here at summer could conid not tell till ii you how low M daany ally aily cb children r n they are t tte e father ofa of and these are the ginly ginty irav who speak about the immorality of the 1 I 1 nel drw 0 why trouble you about the abominations ef of babylon farne ferne leaion rea on only that it does me goot to look at them for It brIngs to by my mind the ha prophecies of joseph smiths smith and aad hoves moves that chat we are i living in lle ile lie the last days dai s amil an I 1 that the kingdoms of this world are approaching the ther r sinai straggle and dissolution diew lution mare pleasing Is it to reflect that the kingda kingdo ril til of god J established upon lle ile the lie cartri ear thi tri that zion Is prod pro peru irenr la in the mountains that hat her children are increasing in light and understandings idin and that her borders are ex t vining tf iline using broux ii bews I 1 learn that ton TOU have bare been ben ri na tavin ing ins great pro progress gress greEs in improvements improvement build ing houses nd and t ng and pamp ans au am I 1 eating them themy but best of all yoa you are learning the tile law of god through a pure and corrupted uncorrupted im channel channe 1 whit what 2 iro Erh mif mii spirit for form m phaik the lord god of cirsel jila that tart w have a man manat at our hea heal i who will speak the truth fearlessly i if all heli hell boll wit over praise god that men are wielding we tl eters keys of last dispensation who wll will tanj tand up for tor rl righteousness and virtue if it all tue the armies cf of nhe the he devil dovil d were ili iii J kanyon that speech of ha he president in nyo vo 51 of the eap 4 matrow marrow to toiv my boneh tonet ever in ail ail all the vord word pass fays i amen anit ii to it I 1 RV ft it found aa aia zia ech e cb chi i in every valley a ley ider heart at moy noy myr ra a aleu al aal eu ibs llis licu ilc lic roars rears we small animals must mut hatt baft ba 1 a t tie tle le tou you ou know inow I 1 think I 1 hear bear you aye ayel aye ate i 6 e eagy to be bold m mies le roni from the battie battle and to bark bar tk wha heu there n no chance of your sour our b un they bay say that col et doe poe was wag a gentleman well I 1 think the least they tiley could eo 0 o was to end one or two good men inen ta t take cae cafe ca e of so miserable miser able abie a lot as were the balance ot at ie t e N not to be governor governors I 1 hear bear rb tut lut it he declined lea led ned ra it is ih lii he lie is lust the ibe man maa I 1 would prefer ref ret cr i 1 we vi e are to haye baye a uis ilig it ah hoies 0 ws that te be leits S sn rome romp mafli ion son y arr cu one but a what do you tt call it 1 that aling xiang VA Meli tirre cant cart would denire desire s cc petition 1 Cn ISLAND erraa slur n P il Ili cli cil charis ards to his big brot brut brother hei her lei samut 17 J t 11 may mar 1 1 aa am limpy toyom toa loa om you that I 1 an am la in tisa tb qa gut kaui sot hualah and ani buoyant rit for cr awe alt f J i to fl thank and praise arl V my mt heaven beaven heavenly 17 bather rather all the day long 11 I 1 have bitely in compary with ahe the corrig foreign n 0 elders eiders n pon upon till bland eland vl the craters crater which 1 a little over miles place 1 I started on the ath of april glibly highly enjoyed the trips trip and eit elt amply remunerated b by b one f the most wonders wanders of the world it was truly a magni flent tient sight and I 1 could not refrain from entertaining a feeling of awe and revere reverence nV while gazing upon it I 1 will give you an in gil git extractor tract or two rom rum my journal which altho aitho very brief and imperfect will perhaps give you a frant idea 11 f the scene I 1 need not tell ml you of the joy and consolation it afford affords me to hear bear from you of your prosperity and of the pr i ft ef the saints in the we peaceful it of the moun mountains I 1 these things you ou can imagine belter better than I 1 can describe I 1 see gee ee by your eter e arr that diey viey t ey are makin makia bilte a str s r in the valley in regard to the subject of education forhing forti torti ine lne soo goo iderle ac aco this I 1 was glad to hear bear for thoat tho I 1 have not me uie for the english lan ian language harr except bv by way of writing I 1 feel remi the ned need of ity its it and I 1 throb if it I 1 wa there now with what wile 11 tle tie experience x lire lite obtained I 1 should apply my mind pretty closely to ludy iuds it bis fil an old gaylong that 9 learnt rg I 1 Is s better tan abes 1 hes hey t tit lit when a person like myself Is not troubled with B ith either I 1 it comes rather binding sometimes in consequence of being in company with the tor for foreign ilan brethren for nearly a t month pat I 1 bae hse hae have not advanced so r in the native language as I 1 probably otherwise duld have bar done but still detill I 1 am progressing as fast as als cmil be empet d and such la is the case with all of the brethren no so tara fara my knowledge extends the work of the lord Is still rolling steadily on upon these mands wands sare being ad led to the Church chunh almost dallys and the saints ap ea ear ean r to be more milling filing to listen to co counsel counsil ansel the farther they advance in knowledge ali all kad and under understanding understands standi ng but take them at t the bist list abst and nd they thet are an degraded people and the eiders elders krs m rhola ho Is br b r among among them have to grea great deal of patience falta and pr p severance to make malie anything of them the gathering pirce place upon the island of lanai Is i at tit present in a condition the he brethren tal ful al in raising A good crop cri p there there lct laa season leawn I 1 ana ann the saints saint a great many man ef themy them are calculating 0 gather there as soon a as a practicable exertions eiert Fiert lons ions are also being made bv by the brethren the different islands to 0 o rase means orul or orui chasing a oconer sc hooner looner to ply around these islands to be used in gathering gather ine lne the sa saints taints ints upon lanai taking produce prex prix luce to market rep reF toying the elders to and from their different fields aai aar ids of labor ac TRIP TO tue TUB CRATER extract extract from corrial of elder eider 11 P richard Ichards It april 19 after atter of a hasty meal and an I 1 providing ourselves with sticks to feel our ady aay at half past part six am a m we vie commenced our descent lna ina into the Lu I 1 ul ApEle pele or craters crater bv by a narrow winding footpath arter after descending some two or three hundred feet we arrived at the plain below which had at some former period been a mais of liquid lava and portions of it had bern be n rolled up in wave davs 6 against the sacks tacks bank but it ills Is now cooled r and in battling bett ling lins has produced large cracks out of the most of which volumes of steam and moke smoke are thi this main pat p 11 I 1 should hou judge to be some ten orthel or twel twelve miles in circumference yand gand and has his W appearance of having baving at some former time been in a burning bun ing state and sank to the depth of some two or three hundred hun lre ire 1 feet below the surrounding surface upon this pabo phoe or lava lari we proceeded a mile and a half or two miles when our pat fat path I 1 became mon and more brieden bri uneven even eren and not being fell fill in obtaining a guide gulde we had bad to of del pel el our cay way ray along the bet best I 1 we could with our stick which was as done aone w with ith conslo coniber able ablo difficulty as we would occasionally bieak break throy the loose scales of lava sometimes som eUnes eunel to the ibe be depth dept of 0 on one e ert art antao w I 1 I 1 te fei fet tt ire came lo 10 quite eutte a large mound or chimneys chimney which had bad I 1 probably been thrown wn up by py some volcanic eruption out of which hib alb large volumes of 0 copiously lb aung ulna uina this ve re ama aga ascended ended but bot wera were soon jod god to retreat nt tit t heing able to withstand the sulphuric smell we then trav trai aled on ing our way ways over largo large and masses masse of lava dep dap deep ihas thas chasms ras mes for about hit half a mile miles when we airia arrived ed at the mouth odthe crater 1 3 this crater tater or pity pit as nigh as I 1 ican lean can calculate le 1 bom aboul bod or yaris radia yar is in diameter diann ter and some 60 0 or 60 1 The liquid lava seems to have a strong cui cut ant running from one side of the crater across to the theother the tho other and ins ing through an outlet under the bank in two different dist rent places the liquid element below ts cs sned seated to be in violent commo commotion tiong dashler the melted lavi ava against a the bank similar to the wavis of ilg some bome almes 1020 or CO ZO feet lu in ibe the air afi itis it Is thought thought by the tae that theria therea therea a wo woman laa HT lir inn ing Ir in illi lill alis s lual mje prie yr crater and nd that he is a pow row power erini lai lal supreme su weme heme ielne being a and n d as such was 1 in former times by them then I 1 i lev les ei t 3 ant wt andu at 31 present by a great many biary it itch a chiet chief letor lefor or any ant leading char cSar character acter diew dies they clerry bis bia from bis big hl bonef irone and throw them into the luald luallie lual nye pIe ae also a lock of his hairs hair finger nal nati IF ac after 1 hilr hily they con ider lder be will wiil ili iii be transformed inta a powerful goilo eod ibey ibes alo also oter otar san sac lice to it by ti rowing in pigs kaats chul chuk ch keng kens ae to appease iti wrath as they itji able vi t rise up and destroy thera thein ute ire tayal that live hive blai been beta do strayed hile g ar it same sama ol 01 us u started to tao too 79 arcand the tile of the crater which was nione with bream breal king ains the thin chust of lava lavz Is upon the t 91 as aso ase having tc it stop atop occasionally alid aud catch bl breath eath a as a flie file he Eairl ruic aimara vs very strong 1 i ft ere ee e e ercel forced orcel to tarn tara tia tin back not sot being ablo all to withstand it 1 after tt tte siene seene seene seine before us c about abott in an li lawr mr ans ani a halt bait and gathering seim selm gt ne of the pele hlin hairs which Is 19 caused by b emall por dor tiona tlona of atje tl tie e lava passing parsing th the atmos eliere forming a jhai of a agen ate die iw aie depass ett tit on awit 14 ni arti of a gi anne lape devo debo oa to a plan plain something ian labarto lan arto the oke one wet saeed egied egand in ing g inh ihn afro the haiir it vere lere aea are coul could 1 6 eaby looking fiti liti i the crack cracks a ant iid ild 1 c the tit in h ir cely vely rely tt elete E I 1 e denel dedel 0 we vire aoud abo eee tee that was conj ony oni a cv C v of lava soil toil soi toi l al or ea lochs epa raed iii lir ironi 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