| Show I 1 I 1 X 0 baom I 1 I 1 Kar tractS of arter arletter letter from eider elder george torge Q cannon I 1 LAHAINA amaul a 8 I 1 an P ast 22 1 IR 51 1 DT DRAB 42 1 I take the privilege of addressing a ivr lines to lo you as I 1 have just jast received letters and papers from home which has filla filial pd my heart with oy and 44 feelings that I 1 can scarcely analyze list last saturday while laboring on oil the he other ether side of he lie island I 1 received a note abote signed by bro phil philip B lewis requesting te que asting us as bro keeler and myself to come straightway strai ht a t to this place as he and bro br o I 1 ham am nond and bro woodbury had J list arrived front from home aro sro ro lewis having the authority to preside we vere ivere much to hear beir this ibis news of the arrival of hese brethren we started for lahaina tuesday morsing moring to ajeet am them not being able to start stait sooner on account of an appointment that I 1 had to fill u upon n sunday and the sacrament to attend to eaid and monra monday V I 1 had appointed for a conference and therefore was detained leta ined we rode on tuesday and wednesday be bc sixty and seventy miles and arrived here in lie evening oa the road ro I 1 it d we met with a man who told us they had their families with them U upon on meeting sheeting ting them we were exceedingly rejoiced to bro woodbury had left hiss his wife at the coast on account vf ut want of means sisters lewis and hammond were along and well with a little boy the child of bro and sister H it done me good to behold the faces of the i although I 1 thought they would need the sprit spirit it f the cue lord to enable crable them to endure things that thai ahey ight have to endure enaw ee while upon these la lands n ds bros lewis and hammond had bad been up to honolulu i upon the island of oahu bahu and had bad returned bringing aws b 11 and W bigler and farrar so that I 1 had the pleas pleasure lire of again being re un 1 ted with them they I 1 were vere both well and bro F had baptized two bro BIM 8 was backward bac kird inthe in the language bro F was a titre litre titue deamore ue more forward we we were Z au reunited re i c united with the exception t of bro hawkins hawking who is upon pon hawaii bro lewis thaw thought ht that they would brosi L ii 5 and W stay in lahaina famines brokew B i 0 lews has some soine idea of opening a school to teach en english glish he bp acquires the language ge bro H will likely start tart h his business shoe making in order arder to support supper their fall families fies although it must faust no doubt be much pleasanter plea santer to have ones one abany f wi thone yet I 1 am glad I 1 am as unfettered here in this respect as I 1 am for I 1 can go and come as I 1 like or r circumstances leland demand without care upon my mind to circumscribe the sphere of my labors I 1 have been highly favored by receiving letters and news from home it is cheering to think thi ink that I 1 have and friends at ciame who do ao remer remember r me and have the power to uphold me before our heavenly father I 1 feel that the lord has blessed me how very different our god to the false gods wor wo shipped by the world at largel large all the attrib attributes il tes pos possessed essed by him in ancient days car can be realized in him at the present no change but the same yesterday today to day and forever I 1 have felt f frequently 1 ake ke s saying abing aying what am I 1 that thou should st be so mindful of me in looking at the miniature countenance of my sister elizabeth and reading the letters and papers it made me feel stran strange cre I 1 almost felt that I 1 would return an alien and a stranger r my iny relatives that I 1 left as comparative children will vilf be grown into men and women and I 1 will be grown ole every hing changed everything very thin improved and altered I 1 wit will be bellind behind the times in many things lings ti in reading leading the papers I 1 see new towns new vallies and settle settlements men I 1 6 springing up all around I 1 can scarcely realize it all I 1 I 1 and how much greater the change will be if I 1 should have to stay two three or four years lormer longer but I 1 hope that it may be that when I 1 do return I 1 shall drop into cyp manners customs ac as naturally as ever I 1 suppose I 1 it t ishay privilege to return now if I 1 saw fit to do 0 s sq out my feelings have hava not undergone any change in ibis respect since since i 1 I first wrote home last las t april I 1 feel determined by the help of the lord to magnify my priesthood and calliel cal linar r a and n d not let an 0 opportunity T port unity 1 slip ilip of build building 11 U up p the kingdom 2 to to gratify r in my private v a lele feelings elip ga I 1 feel ae that I 1 am serving a liberal maftei m t and I 1 will in no wise lose my reward I 1 have been blessed to exceed my most sanguine gangu i no expectations the acquirement of the lwi language guage has ha I 1 been made easy tome to me I 1 have been told repeatedly that there never has been a missionary naLy upon these is laa als has been anything like as foward forward fo ward as I 1 am in the language for the time I 1 have been upon the fhe Is in fact it is very visible to rat me that the lord has blessed me extraordinarily why is it so Is ia K because of myself or roy my prayers no in a small alc talt gree ee I 1 perhaps bat I 1 I 1 feel flo to give you the credit for it bat live at home for your prayers pray eis an in preaching I 1 have been blessed exceedingly the lord has enacted enabled me to overcome in in a great measure my feelings of dread at standing up be before re a con congregation te gation toa to tell ahm my message I 1 have been remind I 1 nelv of uncles blessing upon my my head while living in the valley that I 1 should the waters as a savi savior orand and call upon the multitudes to come for ward and be baptized at keanae keanan in m the district of koolau in four days there were baptized and confirmed in the church at the present time we number I 1 upon this ibis island excluding ourselves with demands upon all ah hands for me to preach this falsia falsifying y the t ophe cies of one or two who have left lef t here or saying n t that at there would be nothing done here and that at we e would leave and we would not be able to live unless we went to work this they were not backward in telling the brethren in san francisco who ho were vere on their i way here the lord does not view things as man does J yet believe there will be an almighty work done if we only do highl the only thing lacking is I 1 the he language I 1 being the only one as yet able to preach in T if the ard lord has blessed me with favor in the eyes 0 of f tb the e people plop iq and there is as a great curiosity to hear me preach they never heard a man preach by the power of the spirit before yesterday sunday I 1 prea preached preacley cled to a white while congregation I 1 had a good flow of the spirit but still it is a fact th though augh I 1 would not have credited it if I 1 had been told tola so some time ago that it is a great deal easier for me to speak sp ea k or pray iw in native than in my mv mother ion tongue irue not that I 1 I 1 can express my ideas with as much for force ze probably as I 1 can in my native tongue but I 1 have been accustomed to using busm nati native ve alm almost CIS A I 1 entirely and therefore my thoughts and ideas naturally seek vent in that channel and I 1 can speak with greater freedom we have organ organized zed five branches of the church upon this island and as I 1 have done everything myself I 1 unas unassisted aNted as bro keeler is backward bac akward in the langhage lan an gaage hiving having been able to assist only by baptizing you can see I 1 have been by n no 0 means idle I 1 am m hi good hopes of the brethren improving henceforth rapidly in the language 0 opposition exl an and pi prejudice iudice are very strong i but the lord r is almighty and will uphold his servants er do not forgat re me ij our prayers and tell all the saints to 6 en ende divor savor to uphold me mc before our mutual matual father tor bor I 1 feel the need of it and I 1 know its elfi efficacy cacy I 1 alo want to do a good work in my day and genera 7 ft not thought much about returning to fo I 1 know chow it is useless alt rent I 1 have no doubt that all a wit be ordered aright bythe by the lord for me to return when my work is is finished here the field is force my love to crests young kimball R richards cli ards and jr amilie also to the brethren of the he twelve and families il sisters lewis and hammond HaiK mond send their love to you they are both well sister L lost her little boy in lower california ekx their ausba husbands ads also desire to be remembered to you it seems like home to roe me and the they y seem as brothers and sisters indeed bro farrer fairer wishes to be remembered to all al when you write direct to the care of bro P P pratt san francisco cal all news will be d uly duly prized z ed I 1 have written a lot of letters home april last and boher pother lot lat about the first of july to everybody acquainted quain ted with me I 1 LAHAINA MAUI MATH SANDWICH ISLANDS nov 5 RICH I 1 have not got the language nell ell elou enough h yet to preach much but I 1 think I 1 shall be able to to pre preach h in the fhe native in the coarse of two months bro ro C cagnon ro has been preaching more thai three I 1 mo I 1 I 1 lap tied about oree three hundred and fiat I 1 11 51 hawaii is preaching but I 1 h he befi 1 Fi of his success bro farrar abrar on oah has baptized baptised t sed about fifty oie fie lias has got the language well el 1 I but ut n not so well as a s bro cannon I 1 we have adelad had bard times from the missionaries they have done all that lay in their power to put pat a stop atop to our preace preaching hi ing an and din in fact did stop our preaching in m two places for afew a weeks we then sent b bro r C cannon a to the government and obtained papers lattin stating that we had as good a right to tb preach our sciples pies as the other missionaries had to preach nei 9 e irs but bat ibbey all the time trying to poison the bunds 01 ol the natives against us i 5 they resort to all manner r of lies crying delusion dela delusion to their congregations gregat ions but we cannot get them to come out oat and discuss the subject abject they dare not do ao it 66 they f I 1 hey have a I 1 I 1 trong strone 1 hold of the natives ves an i I 1 il in influence 1 of hirly shirly years standing stan aing and andia if it was anything but bat mormonism that we were cont contending d for fory 1 I should 9 feel like backing oat but as it is I 1 fed like fighting I 1 on ath t 1 the spirit of the lord and the power of the priesthood Prest pr hood od until the priest baal are entirely coni conj founded and put to shami shame some of them have cursed I 1 us or pv prayed ayed the lord to curso curse us but it remains to be seen which has got the most power with the lord at any rate they have comm commenced encee to lo quarrel amo among them themselves and call each other hypocrites and t they ey a are r e very je jealous alou of each other if one gets a piece of land from the government and the other gets eota none then there is a row commenced they will call each other althe liars liar they can lay their tongues to but they are all rich with good houses and large tracts vf 4 land and that the he very verr choicest with plenty of cattle and horsek aad every thin thing to make themselves comfortable A good share of ace he old stock which came out first have taken CPS under government having thrown aside their bible for the law book they have seen their best days upon these islands their power begins lo jo wane 5 they are i in n grgat great trouble about mormonism we have baptized sed some six or set seton semi on foreigners which is a hard stick for them they havin having never done the like upon the islands after a thirty years residence here the natives look at it and wonder to see the them me come 0 in thirty or fort miles to get baptized and are smart and int intelligent ell igent men the na natives lives tell the missionaries of it and that at ma makes es them double their diligence to stop the progress s of this ald delus delusion ioni but ut they have failed in every attempt as yet the natives are anxious to hear us its preach they are sending for us from all parts of the islands and all that we lack is a thorough knowledge of the nafije language langua ge then I 1 think we will with the he of the spirit of the lord do a mighty work here in in t I 1 a short time but without the spirit to a ebia our labors it i is a dull business Ws we aai ail well as far as I 1 know at present I 1 I 1 from all the elders a r v di days 11 1 ago I Bro lewis JLewis is stopping at oahu bahu the capital of NEI the islands ands together with bros farrar ana bigler Bigl 1 sr on this island maui are bros bios camon camion and adeler and myself on tile tiie island of hawaii there are bros ha hawkins W king and woodbury bro hawkins is preaching and I 1 guess bess uess lie i Is s doin doing well at present but has had a hard f time me and suffered lz a good deal for the necessaries of life so I 1 have heard but I 1 have not seen him myself da but t as for myself I 1 have got along well enough and have been treated well by the natives lt ives my wife is no detriment to ine cae but a help I 1 get many favors f acors that I 1 should riot not get if she was riot not alon g I 1 have just come home from a tour of six wes we desks s around the islands livin living with wilh the native and lea earming ea the language I 1 fin find that it is the best way to lo go where I 1 can hear no english spoken atall at ail then I 1 I 1 learn fast I 1 can preach ame aliat liat I 1 cannot confer well in the language there is a here an old acquaintance of mine he is getting ready for salt lake he is worth about twelve twelve thousand dollars he has been a good E lend to me he has kept me and my wife a good abood deal of the he t time since I 1 have been here he thinks he will leave here in about a year for the like lae he has a large lame number of cattle and houses and lands land s to dispose despos c of first when lie he comes I 1 will give him a letter of introduction to you and bro amasa bro cannon has wrote to you you and now sends his love to you and bi bro 0 o amasa 1 I wish you to write u us ever every opportunity I 1 h luve ave not gut got a fettet yet from the i like ke nor heard any news new from bro pratt please write us as the news for we are rather shut shutout out being in another kingdom if the leters are not pre paid they do not come to hand and I 1 think this is the cause of our not receiving any letters please give my love to bro hopki insi s and all of the brethren mrs H sends her love to you and yours and to lo broi brg amasa anahis folks give my respects to bishop holliday and fa family mily 1 and accept the same yourself I remain your brother in the t gospel FRANCIS A HA HAMMOND MOND P S we have heard here that bro addison pratt had left the society islands for lower california but we do riot not know what to believe about it il the french are arc very hard on the mormons cormons Mor mons so we hear there is some talk ot of these islands being annexed to the united spates for fearon fear af pf the french send us some of the deseret news 9 if you have any to spare F A H the deseret news is sent to most of the foreign mi mission gaion stations and would be to all if we had sure sur e addresses ed news newsy |
