| Show MORMONS IN MOLOKAI the illustrated simians for october contains an article with refer ence to the leper colony on the island 0 of f Molokai one of the hawaiian group or dr leonard Lieo freeman of cincinnati had bad been on a visit to the island spent two days in the colon colony yand and in the course of a long account of dons he la is quoted as saying assaying there are several other churches in the colony besides the methodist including a catholic church and a mormon church but the catholics seem to b doing most moat of the real work the others take it out largely in talk the NEWS ii not noi particularly informed as to whether the e is ia a mormon church ou on this island or not but there are no doubt a tow few members be longing to the church there elder napela now dead who made a visit to utah many years ago before any of his bis country countrymen meD save perhaps a child or two had been permitted to emigrate voluntarily tok cok up his hie residence there because A his hia wife had become a victim to the disease and bad had to be removed thither there are perhaps others who have exhibited similar heroism besides those who were compelled to 10 go hence beuce there is probably truth in dr Free muns s remark that there is a mormon chur b h there but the point we wish to make is that while the church on that island my tint not be doing much of fie rod real work its feord rec rd on the otner other islands to ia conspicuously ahead of any of the rest in the matter of educating train and civilizing the natives for many years the elders of this church have labored with the banakas in the cane fields and the sugar mill taking the lead and assisting in all the plantation labor and te teaching not only by precept but by everyday every day jay example habits babits of industry sob sobriety rieti and virtue it 11 to Is admitted generally that no other church has in this respect becom secom so much it is in hardly necessary to refer rf r f in this connection to the operations of df the colony at josepa in 10 tousle county this territory and to the advancement in thrift and civilization the dusky colonists have there made these matters having been repeatedly dwelt upon in this thin paper we merely wished to emphasize the fact that while in the quotation above dr freeman way may have told nothing but the truth there would have been no violation of fairness it if he had told the whole truth |
