Letter from Daniel T. Miller, 14 January 1898
Papeete, Tahiti
To the First Presidency
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dear Brethren:
I send by this mail the number
of elders working in the field. We have not
used any native elders here so far. I have been
considering the matter for several months. The
islands are so scattered that they could not be
used in a near vacinity of their homes. They
would need to go hundreds of miles from home on
to other islands. To live virtuous lives they would
be under the necessity ^of^ taking their families with them
and there fore I have feared that what little they
would do would hardly be worth the effort.
I observe that the labor sent me supposed
native elders to be at work on the islands
