| Show j 19 ISLANDS LANDS MISSION the tho following interesting it letter ietter tjerand and conference confer elco cico minutes have just been received by byr 11 resident president Brig liam young and kno knowing r wing the anxiety and abidin abiding interest that all our brethren and s sisters S feel in ilk the labors of the elders eiders and the prosperity of ta the I 1 e great latter day work in all nations we take pleasure in presen preson presenting fing these documents to our readers BARK ONWARD pacific ocean ogean october 30 1864 MY ity drap DEAR UNCLE ip 1 I will confess that it liswith is peculiar feelings that I 1 bee the minutes of our conference enclosed to you I 1 had to report and translate at tile the same time it was new work to me and I 1 am sen sensible sibe that it was poorly done done I 1 have been greatly blest biest while oil on this short sh ort mission I 1 have not wanted for food or clothing we sailed from Rono honolulu lulu luiu on the of october sister bister Burn burnham hain and three children are with us also two native brethren bros joseph jospph and william wish a kind remembrance to you I 1 am not ungrateful lor tor forvour your kindness Is to me and hope that n my I 1 future conduct will merit your friendship and good will WIMP tremain your nephew and brother in the gospel of christ JOHN R YOUNG to president BRIGHAM YOUNG 0 S L city minutes of a conference held in liono luht inho sandwich Islan islands lq october 2nd and and 3rd ard present of the missionaries elders joseph F smith IV AV murf duff alma alina L smith benjamin Clu ciu muff duff frand and john jolin it young of the saints sainto about two hundred saturday 10 a in f conference opened by singing prayer ll 11 by elder A L smith singing john jolin R young and J W H kou were appointed clerks of conference prest J F smith said lie he was happy happ to domeet meet beet so many in confer conference ellee elice all ail and d feit fett felt feit that we should enjoy a good time we have met to be instructed and enczur agre in this great work and to inaugurate a reformation that lie hoped would spread far and wide throughout this nau nai on and be the means of restoring the confidence and loye loyc of the saints to uie the ti util lith and gather in many into the tru tm fold when bros cluin duff smith ari all ani lom lum self seif in connection with two of th the twelve arrived here liere in IN larch march they found the tho church churell scattered and broken up lo tr anches disorganized meeting houss sold and the saints with but few captions ti turned away from th mhd truth we have labored lie he said faith falth fully for six months trying to revive you your love for the truth and io to persuade you to forsake error and sin and turn to the lord lurd with all your li carts the fruit of our labor is manifested by the apparent desire to comply with our tear lings besides this wo we have regained a f w meeting houses built on one tand fand and reorganized branches brandies wherever we could but we have felt that you were livirt living under a broken covenant and should have commenced this thia reformation long since but we desired to ili lii instruct you yott in tins this matter and that you should have time to reflect upon these subjects it is one of your greatest fauts to be carried away by excitement we want vant you to reflect and cam the ty util hiat haat 1 Ilat no noo nor or may turn you from IE IL 11 aiu agu ciufia hiis kiis v M the ividell for more than twelve years have you been faithful no trus trad you have been allowed to keep keer your standing because it was hoped hopeel that you would learn to do night right tile time has COM eom when suella such persons should be dealt with accorn ing 1 to their works U we e are ore c cr to 10 commence a defor matlon mation mat n ift ihl and id I 1 we want those trose only to be rc reto reso ii t fixed i zed wed who are ire willing to repent and forsake their sins jb 1 i 1 lur irr ter ur W W muff duff bore testimony to what had been said dehave not been hasty in this reformation we have been pleading C you for several months we V P want yon now rio w to choose I 1 whom ye e will serve reminded them of ja the e children of israel and the punishments limen t s that followed their disobedience exhorted them to cleanse themselves and klitin the tile society of the ungodly tile the kingdom of god gi will triumph one righteous man mail is of more worth than many whose deeds are evil the way of the tile transgressor is hard do right that god may bless you adjourned for one hour 2 p in T meeting INfecting opened b by sin gingland prayer prest J F smith red read to the meeting a translation of a letter from president B young and made a few appropriate remarks stating that three of tile the elders would return home after this conference but two would remain at least for it a season for we did not feel that our labors were fruitless and we do think that you should do something from yourselves ourselves as it is expressed in president youil youngs Z s letter the holy priesthood has lias been restored to man through ii the prophet joseph many of you have been blest with a portion of this tilis priesthood you have the tile power to preach baptize and administer many of the ordinances of the gospel you are a remnant 0 of f the house of israel and if you will live your religion tile the danwill day come when somo some of you ou will be gathered with the saints in zion where you can be further instructed in ti ohp ways tays of life and salvation we ia leave avo iko taught you correct principles and it is for you to practice upon them and improve upon the talents you have already received elder K kaloa alo L said I 1 bear testimony that what has been said is true and declare that the tha the she doctrines taught by the elders of this church i are of mod wod I 1 have 9 ro vit vii up as it were in ill the church of f jeus irown esus christ I 1 was a boy when then these brethren first came to these islands I 1 am now low a man let u uri url no longer be children but men in faith and good works I 1 desire to be faithful to the tile end elder eider J IL napela we have been listening to plain but great truths we llave have sinned ignorantly we were deceived and andied led away by gibsons gibbons Gib sons cunning words and thereby have broken tile tiie sacred covenants we had made but we are now undeceived therefore let us renew our cove covenants hants and be faithful I 1 know this work is of god that joseph smith and brio BrIg brigham hain young are prophets of god and the time will come wh enthey will be acknowledged as such by the tiie world I 1 bear my testimony to this work ili in tilo the name of jesus christ I 1 do know it is true E ider elder the wile words that have been spoken today to day are like coals of living fire I 1 was glad when these aliese brethren returned to us I 1 doubted gibson and did not rise up against the tile priesthood I 1 havo have bell ben a member of this church for eleven years my mys father prayed that ills liis sons might know the truth ills his prayer is is answered though lie he died before the gospel came to us I 1 bear hear testimony that joseph smith is a true prop prophet liet ilet N president smith read the names of fifty persons selected to be re baptized this evening meeting adjourned until to morrow benediction by elder kapule at the appointed hour met mot at auchu ehu chu and after invoking gods blessing oil on our labors we re baptized those pre sly siy selected elected ke 3 sunday ad 2 a in those who wilo had been re baptized were confirmed and those thoc holding the tilo pries priesthood thoo i re ordained under the hands of elders J P F smith john R young 0 wing whig W W cauty cleft A L smie smil smith and benjamin murf duff 10 a m meeting opened by prayer by elder J H napela the authorities of the tile church were presented in ili the tile usual marmer manner and unanimously sustained the following appointments were ma made d e I 1 E elder eider lder ider to preside oven the maul lanai and molokai conference elders kapule geo goo raymond anam and makuakane traveling elders elder eider Kaul kaui kauihou liou to preside over fl hawaii con feren PT nu ail nil traveling elders ciders eider elder 14 leer ider to preside over the tilo oahu bahu conference E elders eiders iders 1 and Kahu kaipo tr aveling traveling elders elder nephi to ta preside over the K kauai abal conference elder holi holl traveling elder several native eiders elders then addressed the meeting injecting t in a spirited manner lilak litak making many very appropriate remarks benediction by elder NV W duff cluff 1 2 p ill lil meeting called to order prayer b bv 7 elder A L smith president J F smith remarked at a conference held on mani an aug 14 elders and makuakane were appointed to visit lanai and ascertain tile tilo condition of the branch of tile the ch church on that island they report fourteen persons as still adhering to gibson and who wilo wished to td be dropped from tile tiie church motioned and seconded that they bo be cut olt off from the tile church car ried unanimously he had written several times to john and henry gibson but had received no reply if they did not report themselves soon he would be in favor of cutting thein them oft olt from the church ili in consonance with president youngs letter we have decided that elders joseph F smith WW W W cluff and john it youn young be released to return home hom v and in that elders A L smith and benjamin cleft ie appointed to take charge of this mission mishion put to vote and earned carried sixty three brethren and sisters were selected tabe to be ed this avenill ev evening enill elder A L alioth smith said br benjamin cluff and aad myself have been appointed to preside over this mission we want you to sustain us by your falth faith and prayers the responsibility of traveling and preaching rests upon us let us be united arise and magnify your callings callins 0 otherwise tl 1 berwise the blood blod of this nail nati nation on will be e upon L your own heads we have charity for tor you but that eliat is not still sufficient you must have charity for yourselves we cannot save you if you do not try to save yourselves referred to tile the war irk in america as the result of rejecting the tile truth antu anit ani slaying the servants of god also referred to the calamities fault are yet to come upon the nations of the earth for like sins conference adjourned until tomor to mor row benediction by elder solomona r a I 1 T monday 10 a in fleeting nice ti I 1 1 opened with singing 0 prayer player by elder kapule elder J R young was pleased to meet the saints in conference since ili lii his return to these islands lie ho had not seen the spirit of the gospel goepel manifested to the degree it had been acen been enjoyed during dueing 11 this conference if he e said scald that himself and br alma aima had visited the saints on the islands of hawaii and maui and they were grieved to see the indifference manifested by many on those islands admonished those who had renewed their covenants to live their religion then tile the work of tile the lord will prosper if they iid ild did lid not the lord would withdraw ills his spirit from them elder eider Be beniamin benjamin cluff said sald I 1 can not talk long this is my first attempt to speak in your language I 1 have only been hereabout here about four months but hope soon to be able to preach to you yoh may god bless you amen elder W IV ClufF said sald if you should never again hear an elder older from zion you power to continue the church oil on these islands but if I 1 you are faithful you will not be left alone we have labored faithfully among you the book of mormon gordion has lias been translated and published ili in your langua language c and we should like to see you appreciate it I 1 you ought we have tried to dispose of copies for the tiie price rlee rice of binding but could not I 1 should not be surprised if tile tiie lay day would come como that you will be glad to get them and can not I 1 am soon going to return return home ionic and hope when wilen we meet again it will be ili in zion several native elders briefly addressed f lie meeting in jn a spirited manner elder J W 11 kou was appointed general veneral recorder of the sandwich islands bands mission prest J F smith in his ills closing re marks impressed upon tile the minds of tiie the saints the necessity of keeping sacred tile the covenants they made cautioned the elders to rc ro baptize none save those who brought forth works mete for repentance suggested that the first sabbath in each month be observed as a day of fasting and prayer and blessed the congregation r gre gation in ili the tile name of tiie the lord motioned and carried that this conference be adjourned until the mi eth of april 1865 1863 to meet ili in honolulu aaril benediction ene diction by elder J W H kou J |
