Show bay of plenty wo north ah island new zealand t editor deseret aws mma i 1 I hi I 1 ngy now am at this thia place oace an dhave and have bee been n sin bin bince since e the middle of june after trave traveling jIng through the soil southern thern portion of bf this Isla isia island iid tid in iii company with brother john P Bo sorensen rensen froni from Or on the napier leaving leaving as pedestrians we mada made our oun way to woodville ana anu held heid M ee ling with a warm opposition against us visit d som e remote settlements ddom fiod from th the main maln al a route went on to palm erston held two meetings in deards beards hall halls in palmerston n with heavy opposition against us by sonie some acty of orthe t he refined ned gentry of the town that started in th forout to rout UP us brother Bo rensen wa smeared nally bally from his hie fie head ad to his boots with the refuse of a barrel at the hotel I 1 felt feit ctorn om to aee gee edhem him lr irL puch sueh such a plight burjust but just then I 1 adf ca a clip dip over the back of the head with a lieal heavy y walking stick drog dreg my attention upon myself suddenly the man that struck pie nie ni e with the vie club said 1 I want to knock some of that mormonism out of you if you are a gentleman the crowd began to cry out hit him again be he is a cou cousin sin jonathan native american an old man a canadian rushed bp up and interfered ind lad shopping the gedon second d bigi alpi i blow 7 in time for foi meto gain in my y bala baia balance ft f j i W and give the sidewalk to the crowd but good resulted from it IL A very respectable lady made up her mind th there erWand and then to join the church and was baptized ere we it f ft t palmerston mer ston sion we ve then their went to and brother brought a whole family into the church but I 1 was warned in a dream W togo go back to pal leaving bro in wanganui Wang anul anui I 1 did 0 so o and stopped at ht the house of william H haynes whose wife had joined ithe church I 1 was again surrounded by the aar akins as the la lawless lavies vies are termed here and had to doors for a week but in the meantime mr W H haynes was convinced of the truth of the gospel and I 1 took him down to the Man awater river and baptized him into the church chuch and kingdom of god the following afternoon another family sent bent for me to go goto to ashurst eight miles I 1 did so and the wife of the man who came after me was ready to join the church in id corn coin company lany jAny with thu those so that had bent sent fon for e but the mob pursued the very door of t hei the houe hou e in this place also so we waited until 11 at night and then went down to the otoncia river and I 1 baptized those wishing to join the church and repaired to their homes and confirmed them as members of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints I 1 lef left t in 16 the morning for ma ala lr karetu kareta cretu settlement on the way 10 lo napier and stayed with brother hans hanson a week luro bro hanson has since emigrated to utah from there went to napier and visited a lew saints there took the steamship a and nd went to poverty bay further north miles I 1 procured i ed the masonic hall in gisborne Ga borne and held oner one meeting there distributing gome some tracts and trying to gain a permanent point fo to stay at for a few pew weeks but failed the k priest here there gave lne ine as well as asi bro bio john johnnj johnni in con consequence se of his havin having f read a pamphlet written by the latter a dressing down larthe in the town papers but would not face ne n e a ope openly my reply to his sarcasm was published phere here in the pu papers pers I 1 then jerf jeff sn in dahy a rathy time fo t 0 come bay of isa 12 miles chrt ugh the timber of na new zealand on a maori trail w with th a 40 0 pounds pa paek pack i ck on ou my back I 1 was six days in the woods with one loaf of bread and as it rained every day on me I 1 had too much water 1 I am here now holding meetings with the Ma ories orles the natives many maur of the chiefs have visited me and ig iri lue the last of june sune I 1 sent tily toy photograph gra ab and a 9 letter to te hotch ko ta the counselor to the king in the hig big A mount mountain mountains aln of the e chat chab by chief aia Ma katarina tamaru I 1 I 1 r received last ina sunday tha the gr 3rd ard rd lust just replies from three their names nales names are pukenui i tawnha and vae wae all of the ehe the upper country of df the great grent tribe of 0 the of the kings cou coun country nEry try iry Pu P kenul kenui the chiel sad said bad they had he heard ard of me by many of his people and that told them that I 1 wa was the tho game man that he be had bad told them about two years ago that would come imme from a far country and give kive we them the good church arnd arid that said sald two moro comingo and then the mao es hareno no more war but they would haye peace redpa and nany many any good things would come to them and that they would know t e good way like Abraha Abra aura hammA inina CAbra abrah hirm hirn in and joseph and Eph ramma I 1 got to the camp of the chief some th three red miles distant aften after dark he got a candle widle ahat that hat he might seo see me to know me net time tia I 1 took with metha me the tho bibie bible and book of mormon and be began gan ta shw sho w him the promises of god to ephraim declared by bk jeremiah chapter bh pter vers verses as t then thia showed him the ibok of mormon as declared by ez ekiel chapter verse explained to him tha the nature of this prophecy and of the s sticks of the tri trl hea hek of israel as qi the bible ia Is the stick of judah so is the book of bf marmon the stick of jo seph in n th hands of ephraim told told him hinr how the book was found by the prophet joseph joseoh by the instructs instructions ons OAS and visitations of angels of gad 0 him and gave him bim a th hours lecture on the principles 6 atthe I 1 the tho gos pel interpreter is a ori george georgo walker by name the the chief rejoiced to hear me in all these thee things and said baid campf capple te elerea hela hel a my which is the good church Is cope opie capp cappi cappi good good arrangements were then brg brodeu exl exi of bf for meto toms come jo to the walka trina luverani lav lUV erand abid live with theli thell ilef lief lef let kerill until december Pe cember when I 1 am afa tl then il eil ell to go tk dekota and the tho v king in the high mountains of the Chate chat and leam learn the maonie language and talk I 1 to all the kim rim kings 18 18 rs people in all these things theford the lord nord hd has guided me madi mafi man ller iler by dreams ednd nad had omens s of the spirit s irit one dream dreana I 1 will write you tat that seem seems sto to bear directly on the maori mission I 1 in my dream 17 wad was was inside of a beautiful field bf wheat and looking at t it itIl bald sald J ig now ready hocut to cut and one said sald to me we are going to pub put it jt today to day I 1 looked around in quest guest of the saw baw iny my dather father driving into a add begin to cut cu bAAnd I 1 bild he handed me a rake and told me to rake up and ani bind into bui bur bundles bundies idles idies and to show the other three men how to bind I 1 looked around and saw three men standing with their cants ou off ready to go to work I 1 raked up and bound some and showed them how to tor gather the thet wheat up andal and bind i nd ft it and was sweating away atthe at the work liap ilbo like a good fellow vv until fattier father had bad cut cut one piece and turned on 0 to o another oth r and going along a water ditch I 1 awoke al and the first instant the words of the savior dame came tome to me think not there is yet four months and then cometh hurest hi rest relt this with other dreams of ilke like nature some more plain than this has satisfied my toy mind and b heart co come 8 in the mind of the lord that E shail shall be gathered unto tho the high mountains of zion and there shall ba hia fold be ifray I 1 prax pray every day that iff lord af may continue to give me a sneek and iii humble rumble bl ebeart eheart heart henrt a heart of df obedience love and aud ud falth aith and anatha I 1 thai t I 1 ma may Y yet set yet lead the laoris maoris into the waters nf baptism by the thousands there la Is every hope of this at the prevent present nt time owe I 1 mould would like to red receive I 1 lve ive the photo graphs of the twelve apostles that thai j I 1 may way show the chiefs and the king the ets of my nay church that bent S sent ine hie to 1 them to show shiow them thein N what wants the them M 1 to do my previous mountain i li life has baa fitted me to bear tue th a rough and tumble of this mission I 1 keep brother brom Brof bromley miley filey continually posted in regard to all my div movement among the mabries Ma ories orles I 1 have agreed e to iivo live with it th them m four years year and learn their language and teach each them the boak of mormon and the doctrines of the church tin unless ies leb les I 1 am called home homr the lord build lip lip zion and comfort all her waste places your brother 1 in 11 the glo Clo gospel J S FERRIS I 1 |