Show SANDWICH ISLANDS LAHA LAHAINA INA island ot of 29 1864 I 1 1 I 1 at ita ite pres present I 1 ent time I 1 am alone upon this i island laland ao so far as the foreign elders are con e arned bra J F smith and W W V cluff have gone goue to the island of nanal kanai some mie miles s distant to set in order the branches of the church there they were well when I 1 laatt last gaw BAW them bome borne three weeks since I 1 haye baye recently returned from a tour around i this island which IB is the second largest island ct of thia this group the moat most of the ava way it is a very rough rocky rucky broken mountainous country which aich makes it very fatiguing to ito travel over I 1 took a native elder with me as ail a guide gulde ulde and assistant I 1 held eight meet inns ings and organized seen seven branches of the chu chuich church I 1 ch I 1 found the saints in a kerylow very low and s sunken bunken un ion I ien ken on condition both spiritually and tem temi borally po rally thre there were no meetings held on the island no family prayers attended to they said bald the reason for this thia was that gibson bad 1 not only onry instructed but actually forbid them to hold meetings t preach the gospel read the scriptures or attend to family prayers ac he told them that there bad been enough of those spiritual works it was now time to dif dip dispense pense with them and go to work physically this thi they had bad complied with all except the physical portion almost every every thing they bad had in shape of property such as horses oxon axon sheep goats bogs fowls houses lands farming utensils c ac he had p devai reva lett iett ed upon tb th m to turn over to him in behalf of the church promising them to buy a tract of land for the saints upon these islands to gather unto this tact t act of land you will have learned ere this reaches you ou he bought with ith the saints mean means had it deeded over to bim lie in bis own name and unto bis his heirs beirs and assigns and not as he had promised premised them he would rn behalf of the church the saints feel quite discouraged and worked up about it they eyen even by his bis order sold their meet meeting irim t bouss houss BO so that now they have no place to meet in we oas rood good meeting bouse house by was sod for the paltry warry sum of at two dollars so as aa to send the money to him in ordaining the different officers of church he would ordain oraan a man to all of lesser lasser offices before he could be ordained the office of an elder seventy or bi one ot of tho the twelve and inake make him pay for a separate certificate for each ordination this money he I 1 pocketed I 1 had bad bern sean conver bati aati n yesterday with a gentleman gan teman who said that mr ilir gibson was uras I 1 over ever from lanai the other day and had some soye some bome cor cop with him and that gibson positively I 1 denied ever having any tny connection whatever with the Mor nor mF church and told him that be was never baptized into the church hurch no held any effice office whatever gibson had some talk the sauie same day with another gentleman gant leman ieman and told him that be he had with drawn from the mormon church four months mon abs abb previous pr etious ivious to our arrival hereso here so that our cutting him off did not amount to anything thin this acknowledged the fact ot at his once having been a 11 mormon 51 ormon which wab was in contradiction sontra diction to what he be had just to d the gentleman first mentioned therefore ther etora etoia they both eisaw saw the character of the man the saints wish to enter a sait against gibson to try and recover some of their property how matters will shape themselves here herb tere dere I 1 am not prepared to say but feet fee that god Is at the head and au aik things v iu come out cut right to look at things naturally our out prospects ahead upon these lands are not overly flattering flittering flitt ering alma AIMA L SMITH some at thase those who questioned tile tiie professions and motives motives cf of capt gitson while be wa wab was here may upon reading the foregoing letter lette r from br ariey ot of the courteous reception and L kind ind and liberal treatment invariably extended to him from the day of 0 his drai drat introduction in etab such pe persons rons birget forget that there is a certain consideration due to strangers b as such and that baptism laying on of hands ordination an ad i a misson are accorded to those who ask them with apparent good faith and candor uhlers more thin than alin impressions c cm tn te le adduced for euial eulai lial elal elial i lal ial this must needs be that each one is li be he free exercise exer eise tise of his agency may have f I 1 1 opportunity opi for the merit or dement demerit that pertains to ha hs acts and the gy emter enter ater the he fe fleties flit ies les opportunities and bless mess inra inga the ibe greater v N ill he be the regret ever eyer autu I 1 g th the elfa e c of f all we hoped that mr G hs n would by a constantly uza up r and r g bous keoua coatse live down the unfavorable impre he ca I 1 upon some whig here but be has hag seen gib at fit to make mahe shipwreck of b bis s faith and for so doing ha bis his no one but himself to bame |