| Show A GOSPEL WORK NINETY FOUR ADDED addel TO TILE tiie CHURCH IN A SHORT TIME A MARK OF appreciation new Zea zealand lanil august 1884 william and alice greenwood american fork dear parents I 1 cheerfully inform you of my good health and cheerful spirits since my last to you have changed positions on the dinst agreeable to pre arrangements in com cow company any with prest W T stewart and ira yra ira lra N hinckley and self and by our guide Ta kerel kerei a maori brother we took our departure from Ta onoke under gratifying though peculiar circumstances in the morning of the above date while we yet e sat at the breakfast table comm commenting ett eti li on sundry topics three maori women entered the room with a mat each and placed them on our shoulders informing ornit us that they were expressive preb sive of their their lo 10 love iove ve respect and esteem for us each of us replied in appropriate prop late terms informing them that we en entertained a complete appreciation of their most valuable gifts and a full reciprocation of all their esteem anile and before we were talking to them their sentiments were made more emphatic by a copious flow of tears accompanied compan compa nied led by sobs which gave foru ford ble bie express expression lo n of a sincere inward sorrow impressed therein by the contemplation of our departure from them in all probability until all mankind will be to appear seat of christ to give account for lor the deeds done in the body we had come among them as almost perfect strangers taught them the way to excellency and glory the they shook off the fetters of iniquity and the shackles ot sin and yielded obedience to the gospel since departure we have VISITED elve eive settlements and presented the gospel to most of the tile inhabitants thereof thus favorably impressing most of ilem them toward the truth h while very few opposed it we received the kindest of treatment having plenty of good food and lodgings traveled about sixty miles horseback on trall atrall a over mountains and through deep gorges and arrived at this place in good health here we are receiving ceiling very good treatment at the hands bands of our maori friends nuhaka sept kept 4 As I 1 journey along I 1 write at intervals when time permits while at we held seven meetings at five different railei pallet thus presenting the salvation message to hundreds of maoris laoris who listened with marked attention and interest to our preaching ching A very favorable impression was made on their minds and warm friendly feeling established for us and the tha cluse canse we represent no doubt in some future time it will result in brin bringloe wine glue many of them into the church and ana in fact had they not been in the heart of a session of land court we would have had the pleasure of adding many of them to the church being maz mag sat soled s that we had done all that we could in the left there on the 2nd and dinst and came to this place nuhaka where we have held three meetings BAPTIZED THIRTEEN PERSONS and blessed three children today to day we go on tomachia to Mahia mahla one of the elders from will follow us and look after our new converts the work is opening all around us the people are wanting us to go to many places the harvest is great and the laborers are few it requires more reapers readers among this people I 1 must pause at present as some nave have APPLIED FOR BAPTISM we will baptize them and go on to mahia mahla where they are awaiting for us lur jur wal wai ath we left nuhaka and traveled over a low range of mountains down to the sea beech followed it for some distance then made a very precipitous cit cli cip itous ascent into the hills through w chwe traveled for some time then came out on an eminence which afforded us a magnificent view of and poverty bays descended to the sea beech and crossed the narrow neck of land between these two b bays ay s on to the poverty bay side to a place pi ace called where we were received with open arms in the afternoon they called a large number together and we preached to them in the evening we preached a again ga in next morning we vye BAPTIZED NINE PEOPLE and blessed seven children in the evening we baptized one more and blessed one child at prayer in the evening stewart read malachi 4 an and d talked for some time on the of baptism for the dead TWENTY MORE appl appi applied led for admission into the church I 1 officiated I 1 got through late at night which was cold it was a most gratl spectacle to see those dusky clusky natives thronging ngin the bank of that beautiful river rive rt tode ose ole immersed beneath its waters fo for r the remission of their sins sin s the night was magnificently illuminated by the queen of night whose reflection kissed the calm surface of the river immediately after baptism ba the maoris laoris made a big fire in tie tle the open air we assembled and confirmed the and blessed four more children and retired worn out at midnight next morning we bade farewell to our saints and came to this place muriwai Murl Mur wal iwai traveling a most horrible road over mountains and down deep gullies on arriving we were again re calved with welcome anthe on the evening of our arrival we preached the gospel and yesterday sundy saudy sunday preached to all the maoris laoris in the yah pah all two maori church of england ministers arrived from giscome Gis bome they took charge of the service and at the close allowed us to preach reach one of these ministers athirst at arst became very abrupt and wanted to know who and aud what the mormons cormons Mor mons were and wanted I 1 preached about one hour to them many questions were put to us and they were answered with satisfaction to the natives and the tiie current of opinion turned in our favor when we left the church i early all the ministers congregation followed us and some twenty or thirty have APPLIED FOR ADMISSION into the church and in the evenin evening the two ministers fled into another country ath you cn can from t the he various dates and easy terms of places form a faint idea of my ramblings at muriwai we baptized 25 and blessed 5 children thus aggregating since leaving th the e caloa EIGHTY NINE IN ALL added to the church you can depend upon it the work keeps us a moving yesterday ay left muriwai and traveled around the northwest poverty bay to giscome Gis bome a comparatively large european city the white while mails malls mans centre of this district crossed the giscome river on a ferry to ranga to find the purties parties we wished at that place we came to this place a small pah immediately on the brink of the ocean and three miles from giscome Gis bome ifera here we found some of our Waira rapa friends whom we had met there about one year ago apo afo they received us kindly and provi provided ed for our necessities in the evening all the natives of the place assembled and the gospel was preached to them Whak autu 10 we weare are so busy that it keeps us on tiie the move our time is limited and we have a long road to travel and many places to visit when we get through here in poverty bay we will cross over to a distance of about miles over a rough road from there will make for the ift hot lake district then down to the waikato and get in to auckland some time in october iet er probably my narrative will prove of some interest to my esteemed friend and brother bishop win wm M bromley as he is acquainted with the parts over which I 1 am traveling last night we stopped at and preached to about 60 50 or 75 natives this morning we came to this place after baptizing five tive at Wha kato making 91 94 in all we have telegraphed for one of the elders to come here from the waira ra rapa a it requires require smore more elders inthe in the fud fad nield field and no doubt but what some will bill be sent here before ion lon long iong the whites have offered us a chance chana to preach in gisborne Gl which offer we will accept we were in there the other day and they flocked around qs 8 like bees evl evi dently looking for our horns well we poked polled some horny arguments at them arm ALMA A GREENWOOD |
