| Show ISLANDS conference the semiannual semi annual conference of the church of jesus jebus christ of latter day hainta saints of the sandwich blands elands held at laie lale oahu bahu april gih ath and ath 1883 convened april ath at 10 a in in what we call the oid old meeting hoube house since bince our new one is so BO nearly completed the inside of the hoube house was wab tastefully decorated with the prolific fern by the native saints over the stand was lowing motto in the native language madlof made of tern fern leaves leavea hoid hold sast fast to the iron rod that to tb the e tree of life and another over the entrance door come quickly leet iest the time be past paal present on the stand Preel president dent E partridge and elders eiders john mel mei drum H A woolley F W marchant B A coray corar carl anderson And ernon ennon jas jab B sas jas H gardener E M hansen S E woolley saml sami gentry M E pack geo aco clau cluty V B R miller W C partridge and win G farrell earrell president partridge spoke of the duties of the saints and then call cail d upon the elders who had been laboring bor bon ng as presidents upon the different lelau iola da to give a R general re port of their respective fields fieldi of la a bor the statistical report showed number of saints 2832 number of children under 8 years of age total number of souls ot whom were baptized and 87 children best beat during darlng Lh this number Is considerably less than was reported at the last conference which Is ia accounted for by the fact that many of the people are very transient in their mode of living when they leave a branch their names are erased v and nd as they fail fau to report at the branches to which they go or perhaps go where there are no branches organized their names are lost the mainio missionary nary tand fand report leport show ed amonn amount la in trea trev Aury at the be ginning of last iut term amount received from the saints hainta this term amount ed balance in treasury elders B S E woolley and samuel gentry occupied the remainder mal mai rider of the meeting exhorting the saints to keep the commandments of god that by so BO doing they might claim his blessings and gain his bis spirit to guide them at all times in the afternoon the Y M and Y L M I 1 the relief society and the bunday banday school reports were read all are in a flour dishing condition and it is expected that full reports will hi sent bent to the proper authorities in utah president partridge reported donated for the new meeting house during the last six months tithing temple donations 31 the remainder of the afternoon was occupied by the native missionaries who had been traveling among the people preaching the gosp gospel el blace blaco lat lait october conference in recounting their experience the meetings during the ath were mostly occupied by the foreign elders expounding the principles of the gospel telling the duties of the saints to god and each other speaking peaking of the blessings awaiting the faithful aa the remainder of the time was taken up by the native brethren from the this various islands most of the forenoon of the seb was occupied by the foreign elders as the day before the appointment of the elders for the com coming ing six months were read as follows john meldrum H A woolley and E M hanson to work on the new meeting house F W marchant to assist on the plantation M E pack as tutor to the english school about to be established at mel gei laie lale samuel gentry to travel upon the laland of oahu bahu J B knead and V B R miller upon the island of hawaii district of kahnia nahala hama kua and hilo sae sie woolley and IV 0 partridge upon the island raland of El awall districts of rons ronar KonaK kau rau nand and puna B S A corny coray and wm G earrell farrell upon the islands of maul molokai and lanai lanni and JH gardener and geo goo dudd duff upon the loland island of ranal kanal it is expected that brether brother carl anderson anderaon wife and children will soon return home after an absence of nearly four years I 1 and several native saints sainta expect to go 90 to utah with them in the afternoon G local authorities of the church were unanimously sustained as an also wab was president partridge and hi hit counselors and the elders from utah preat rnest partridge Part rde wag was the tho first speaker he paid they the native saints wondered that no native elders had been called this term to preach the Gosp eland explained that there were enough foreign elders to go two by two on all the islands bald they had heard them all speak in the native tongue and could see bee that anat mist of them could express their ideas clearly and were therefore prepared to take upon tb them em th this Is work but they must nevertie fes leb 9 hold t themselves henr heni selves in reading nes neb a to work at any time they might be called upon he thought that we wit had enjoyed a good spirit jn in all our meeting meetings and felt that wo we had all benefited to which been greatly many responded responded respond ea Kok ual 6 even ven so he would like to hear some of the native eldera eiders of lale laie no they were better prepared pre prepared fared gared to teach than those who had bad n not t gathered to lale where they them selves might bo ba taught after which several of said elders spoke exceedingly well principally on the subject of gathering conference was then adjourned until october oth 1883 the house bouse was waa crowded to overflowing every and during darlng he entire con Cou conference cofferen feren teren ce the interest never flagged the speakers both foreign aba and native apke epke with spirit and power all faces beamed with joy and the tho influence of the holy spirit seemed to shed its peaceful rays over every heart the new meeting house Is rapidly nearing its completion com and ero ere octo ber will be hold our october confare conference in it its lly at which time it will be dedicated the saints are all expecting ome of the farat presidency or of the twelve here at that time and the probability to la that it will be the largest costeren conference con teren teron terence terenca ce ever held on these thebe islands respectfully wu WM 0 FA farnell earnell rnell enell I clerk P 8 since Confere conference ace boo bros 8 A coray and carl Ano anderson andersen erson erbon hate have received their releases and therefore a council meeting was wag called and the appointments or of the elders were somewhat changed W G F |
