Show correspondence SANDWICH ISLANDS hi HILO 0 hawaii S I 1 7 july 16 1657 BR JAMES MC KNIGHT I 1 am happy to inform you southal that thal I 1 enjoy the tire best beat of health and aud am buoyant in spirits for tor which blessing my heart is continually filled fille d wilh prayer r and thanksgiving rg to almighty god who is ille tile giveron give every good and aud perfect gift I 1 thank god that I 1 live in in this day and age of the world when nHe Hp in ins ils lis irs infinite gc goodness has condescended descended con toa ioa loa gaim reveal reseal to mortal coital man the ili ill ight 1 t of eternal aiudi andt andl hat I 1 have receive received ed a portion of file llie same I 1 praise the loid lord that I 1 have been initialed initiated into the church of jesus christ of latter dav day saints have received a portion of the holy priesthood and have been counted worthy TO be sent as one of the swift messenger messengers to the nations of the earth a herald harald of tile the lori lord lord jesus t to proclaim the principles of life and salvation to this a portion of the lost sheep of the house of israel who are at he flie present time lime sunk stink in darkness sin and superstition and weighed 11 down with raft I 1 pray god gd that I 1 may ever acquit myself in that way and alid manner whit which ii be cometh a humble servant of christ that I 1 may fulfill my nay mission with honor to myself and with acceptance to those who sent me I 1 pray that I 1 may ever keep my toy garments pure white and add il unspotted spotted from the blood of this generation and that I 1 may after I 1 have served out the righteous ofie ofte will of my in lord towards me upon these lands to reunite with my family and in the happy valleys of ephraim Ep braim and that finally I 1 may inay le ie calve that crown of glory immortality and eternal lives ilves in the celest celestial lal ibl kingdom of our god which is prepared for all the faithful finh ful fui I 1 spent the first six months of my sojourn on these ed isaks upon the island of maui maul the acquirement of the language of this people occupied almost my entire time lime thi caused the hours to seem rather dull and ard lonely when I 1 had llad studied three and a halt hall months I 1 beean besan to speak in meetings and pray in the hawaiian tongue and 1 I have continued so 0 o to do at every opportunity up to the arsent time at our last conference april 6 1857 1 was wag appointed to labor upon this island hawaii in company with elders bell west ard brown Br and thus far my time tima has been very differently occupied to what it was during the previous six months since the date of my arrival upon this island april 15 1 I have traveled raye led lel on foot with my knap sac rac kupon my back acal between five and six hundred miles and that too 1 overa very ough bough hough country being cornbo composed ed a good portion gorlion of the way ways of 0 successive mass masses s of rough broken lava beds which have been thrown up LIP by volt vole volcanic eruption eption tills this was very injurious to both shoes and feet I 1 have llave traveled ind ay iy a tedious mile with blistered feet and wearied limb often faint fontham fod fop the the thy want of food and when I 1 would be so fortunata fortu lati iati as to obtain pome bome Fornelli liing hig to eat very often it fouli be such food as the dog of a civilized cout country itry would refuse to 0 o eat all thi and more have 1 I been wallin willing to endine endure that hat I 1 might preach tile th gospel of jesus christ to tills this poor I 1 dark benighted ridden people I 1 thank tile tha lord that I 1 have had llad the privilege e of leading leadin a number nf hem thein into the tile waters 0 of baptism there would be creal great numbers added io to the church upon these lands were it riot not that tile tilo people are continually belne being stuffed d through the pul put pulpit pit and orlim W lse ise IP with all manner macnei of abominable lips UPS and malicious falsehoods respecting ra paci utah and arid tile the earmous Mar mons 1 and tile the people being naturally an all ignorant 1 race nace easily flattered and quickly excited are actually afraid to receive the tile truth but we intend to preach the tile gospel to thern them and leave them without a excy excuse e and the event will be between them and their god it seems as thongla all hell waa mustering pa is forces to impede impale the work vork mork of the he al almighty mi clity upon these I 1 aids ind but I 1 know that truth ruth is all ail 11 powerful add and will prevail the tile elders upon thase these isles have many thing things s to contend with we have to 0 o fight file tiie he devils or his imps and arid we have to 0 o bear the scorning ani and of bigoted and ungodly men but I 1 continually can lar bear in mind the words of our beloved savior blessed are ye yo when men shall revile revila you and arid persecute you von arld and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake 11 br james I 1 am not at all discouraged but on he ilia contrary I 1 feel wide awake and alive dve in nisin my whole soui soul is enga engaged ad in ill file the ministry of christ I 1 never neier feels fee so well weli as when 1 I arn am standing up tip before the people declaring unto to them the words of ilfe life oil ali and sil si lvalion bearin beaning hearing my testimony to the truth of the book of mormon and arid that joseph smith was arld aud is a prophet paget of the living god 0 1 I feel that it I 1 is s g good to be a saint I 1 feel like jike crying life lite life life unto the he people I 1 am perfectly willing and content contented d to remain upon thes these iles lles and fight the tha devils and preach tile the espel gospel until the file servants of or god who are placed over me tue shall say br alma itis itts enough I 1 want to spend my mv days and wear out this mortal tabernacle in traveling and arid preaching the gospel and it in he helping ili pin I 1 to to baili build up the kingdom of god liere here on the earth and I 1 as paul sald said make full proof of my ministry I 1 have late dates from the elders eiders upon the different islands arid and they are in in the tiie enjoyment of tolerably good h health eaith and are untiring iii in their effert efforts to e establish sta blish truth among the people ALMA L SMITH panis paris PARISH lo 10 LONDON adoc ROME bome NEW YORK if we go to paris we find tha the people whom we we taunt mth with their submission to a mere military arv despotism and self imposed out zut autocracy beadi leading il quiet guiet or deily comfortable I 1 lives in the most beautiful and best governed city in the it is clean it is safe the tile eye i is not shocked by outrages against public decency neither houses louses of ill fane fame fama nor liar gambling houses 1 louses obtrude into the way to tempt N auth orth the ilia laws are vigorously carried out it if a man is wronged he be is sure of redress vans pans has hag improved within the last two years at it a rate far surpassing any american city its strides towards comfort and arid beauty will almost surpass the beiler belief of those who are accustomed to estimate municipal progress by his All oil atlantic antic examples or cross to london there is a city ruled as a stump orator would say by a pampered aristocracy and a bloated set of peers with the queen and the house of lords at one end and the tower brimful of machines of despotism ou theother tila tile other othen yet look at london was wab thene there even ever a cl cleaner ea ner der better ordered safer more comfor comfortable hable lable city to live in where is there so efficient apo a police force forced where is there less or fewer violations of law go to germany berlin and vienna under the their ir military despotisms despotis ms are both well governed safe convenient to live in the only city in europe where corr corruption option and filth and disorder holdas much sway as they do in new york i is the tile city of rome which is under an ecclesiastical government with the pope at its head that is a badly governed city they have bad laws there here which are badly executed gambling houses and worse places a abound robberies are quite as frequent as they are here and the po police I 1 ace does as little to check them the corso is as filthy as broadway and land tie ile tle the side streets isare tsAra are arr as kis full of unwholesome I 1 matter poisonous effluvia and debased creatures as the streets in tho tha neighborhood of the tombs the parallel is uncommonly striking WHAT MONEY DOES fanny donat yoa think that mr bold is iland lland handsome some man mail P oh no I 1 cant endur endure eh his is looks i ile he is homely elou enough b 11 I 1 s P r well hes fortunate at all evet events for an old aunt hag haq just died arid and left leit him ua and dollars I 1 1 1 1 1 1 indeed I 1 is it true well now ij I 1 come to recollect there is a certain noble robie air about liim and he has fine eyes that cant be denied 11 WE GOT ANY GOD AT MY papas paras A little boy whose father neglected the th duty of family prayer spent som sometime a time with pious relations where morning and evening devotion was carefully observed and religious instruction imparted remarked Weh avult got any god at my papas bouse P GREEK proverb the gods sell ev d thing to men for labor i |