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Show A Mormon Boy m Moaridom. It is whiter in Moaiidom. Mud nnd slippery clay havo now taken the place of the dim of the pniutnor toads, and sunshine has turned to incessant rain wind nnd froHt. Still natiit'C in clothed t ith her mantle of green, email grain is sprouting up and the few fruit trees that hr.voshed (heir leave? aio unnoticed umnng the foiCKla of evergreen. Our ride iH a long one today and fully two hours before daylight we have pai-laken pai-laken of our breakfast of potatocx and oniony and arc off ou our trip. Scenery once so new and enchanting to the eye haH now grown old, and hills once ro 'tcdioufl to climb are parsed unnoticed. Dut here are tho beauties of nature : The tropical trees are seemingly matted together with tho pioslytic gtowJi of fornfl. moan and plants, and again, hillj once covered with thcbt piimeval forests 1 are now turned into pleasant lieldo and J fai tu yards. At aoon , we reet our horses and calling at a farm house- we are invited to dinner The young lady, as she bcruba the board floor, npologizingly says, "We have been to Aukland to sister's wedding, and thes" boys are eo bo dirty " Then tho mother just from the wash tub ttdls us, ''people here help themselves, now you're welcome to all we've got." The wholesome meal (fed to a New Zealander) of pork and vegetables was thoroughly appreciated and relished by the travelers. We find many lospitablo Europeans here, but seldom visit among them. ; Night shades have now come, the pleasant fields aje changed to a waste (' of stunted growth of tho tree tea, (the (; New Zealand sage brush.) Wo sec tho j smoke curling up from an enclosure or l ' wind-break of tiee ta. It is tho Mao: i gum camp. Cockle and muscle shol If, cooking pots, etc. are lying scattered around the tent doors; uitliin arc the kind hearts that welcome us to the best they have. Th2 largest camp however is about a mile away and wo trace our way ovtr the little.trail leading to it. . fearing lest we fall into the hole from I '" which Uio gum has been taken The 1 -clouds come closer and heavier, the lightening shows us our way, and soon a .',.1 a tropical storm of rain is pouring down. Afterwards the moon shines forth in her majiatic beauty from the still angry cloud?, and the two ""Mormon" boys are (tinging and preaching preach-ing to tho Moarias who listen from, their tent doois. We Vsll them of -" ' their lore-fathers, u once mglily nation blessed and favored of (JoJ. Through ".- unbliof and disobedience tiiey had fallen ' ' ' "t now God had remeiu beted thy setd 9- of Joseph and through obedience they would become tho Israel of long "go. I The chief of thn camp thanked ueand feaid, "Como again that wo may hear I more of your wonderful .toiy." They had thought that wo wore one of the . jnany religions of the white man, who 9 -they say have deceived and robbed them , -of their lands. Supper was prepared .for us and around the pleasant camp I lire wo simplified the gospel truths to .our eager littenera. Then wo told them m- . 'Of their biethicn on tiio American B N continent and the wonderful piomiecb i , God haa made to them. Of our singing B ' . they were especially delighted. Tho B y hour was lute when the t ,vo native B i boya led us back to the camp whore we B left our blanket?. The storm now le-W le-W turiifi. Tho wind and rain heat (low u B upon our fraif shelter. Our oil coats B .alone keep tho ruin oil' our blankets. B j Perhaps in tho hours of alum wo re- B ,' turn to our mountain home and are I I mingling once again with the association I ' of youth, Peichaneo we aio telling a I younger brother of the joy that comes I iu guiding the souls of men buck into I tho nnpni'o of their God and urging l .hiin toniako tiis his niiy. Ihd tho gioat . ,1a w given not sny, "If you love me feed I V my sheep?" I Fiancid W. Kirkham. |