Show ri A viat visit to the tho lepers yat a 1 we W 0 make dake the following interesting interest hig 4 tex lex extracts tracts from a letter written adval luken luk maul sandwich Islin islands daj web j tob teb by elder bider F ider lder henry P richards richar i ds addressed to his family 11 in this city r 1 I left leit this isian island d ashaif pasta ii ii in the evening und and actor a pleasant rs t sail of nine hours under a bright 0 i full fall moon in a email small open whale boatri safely on molokai Mol oKal the wind was waa very light or we should have reached the island sooner the president of the church upon that island met me at the beach beachy when we went directly to his ills house bouse in two twos or three days atter alter we started on a tour lour around the island islands he furnishing horses and going with me wherever ago ogo tu go while upon this island il visited the lepek settlement tw where here I 1 met with our old friend and brother Nape lathe native who visited salt imke lmke city about nine years ri ago poor fellow fellows it made my heart 1 ache to see him hid BIs wife wite Is ft a leper lepers and was brought to ahls settlement four or tivo five years ago he refusing to leave her came with her to this and he has no now got the dibease disease abe age there are now at ai this set clement lepers and some rt have died of viat disease within the last eight or nine year years s at pit this place alone not counting tinting co hundreds of others who have died and who have the disease scattered y throughout the different islands 1 I remained at the settlement over sunday and held two meet v i lings ings and I 1 could not held help but shed tears in arising to address a con don gre gation of lepers all adre more or less and nud aud disabled for life and whose h 08 e only hope in this world is rr forteith fon for death deith to come and relieve them of 0 f their misery this bottier settlement nent neut is a natural prison surrounded on one side gide id b by steep sleep rugged pipun tabs and by t the hel ta sea a a yu the other and no one oho is s permitted d to visit the settlement or to leave 1 it only by permission from government or of from the agent of the board of health therefore whenn leper is arrested and brought to abis this place ho he hns has no hope only to be separated froni from his hid relatives and friends aud and to remain where here as long aa as he be ives ilves as the disease 19 18 is 19 considered incurable 1 while I 1 was at the dhe settlement I 1 stopped with the catholic priest at that pinco place who is temporary superintendent the superintendent having died some two or three months previous aa as it is not considered wisdom to stop among the natives for fearon fear of being inoculated with the disease by sleeping in their blankets eating their food orb or shaking hands bands with them their ri of 0 course bourse while there the relative merits of mormonism and calbo catholicism were duly discussed between ourselves I 1 es but I 1 do not hot think either i of us ua was wag converted con verte d to the others keil kell religious gloub views 1 1 I remained tipon upon that island two weekes weeks when I 1 to lia Iia haina upon this island where I 1 remained one dayt day helt then passage for lanai lanui where I 1 remained eleven dayh days there ia Is but one branch of the chuich upon this island numbering i abou abbu t 40 who generally feel wel well in fact it itt I 1 3 abbat the livelier llyn 11 abt branch brandh in this country I 1 held heid conference at this place dedicated a new meeting house they had J just completed an and a baptized one 1 I also held heid conference upon the island of holokai Ko Itol okal lokai baptized six bix and visited bix six branc branches branched bed beg of church held heid several meetings and sud and hud married one couple coupie the many friends of 0 elder irich blob ards arda will be pleased to learn that he ia Is in the enjoyment d of good health ile he intended holding a conference conference conie I 1 rence at the place from wb which fob job lie he wrote J on the of marchand soon after to return to tobaie toJ jafe ale sie aie i i i t JI r i |