we would like to speak, I told him at 5, he gave out our appoint-
ment, and invited us to his house, I asked him how many school
houses there were on the island, he answered said, four, and gave me
their names, I asked him if they were free for any one to preach
in, he answered in the affirmative; I took out my bible, book of
Mormon, and doctrine and covenants and laid them all upon his
stand, he promised to read them.; the hour of meeting arrived,
I preached to a full house upon the first principles of the Gospel,
and bore testimony that the Lord had raised up a prophet, and
had commenced to establish his church and kingdom again upon
the earth, in fulfilment of the ^His^ word of God as spoken through
the ancient prophets and apostles; this was the first discourse
ever delivered by any latter-day Saints upon this chain of islands;
Elder Hale bore testimony. I gave out appointments for preaching in
the four school houses, the people came out en masse to investigate
the principles which we taught, in 14 days we preached 19 discourses,
when Cap. Justice Ames and wife were baptized by Elder Hale, Elder
Newton, the baptist minister, with his family, attended twelve of our
meetings, read the books, and was convinced by the spirit of the Lord
that our doctrine was true, and he had a hard struggle for days in
his mind to know which to do, receive, or reject it, he finally resolved
to reject it, and took a stand against us, he & commenced preaching
against us, he also sent for Mr. Douglass, the Methodist Minister, on
the South Island, to come over and ^&^ help him; he had been long at
variance with Mr. Douglass, but they became ^very^ friendly and united in
a war against us;. We continued preaching daily until be we baptized
most of the members of Mr. Newton's church, and those who owned
the meeting house.

I followed Mr. Douglass home to his own island, and com-
menced preaching to his church, and baptized a good share of
his members;, among whom were several sea Captains. Ministers from
the main land were sent for, who came over and tryed to put
a stop to the work by preaching and lying about us; but the
work continued to roll on, they wished me to work a miracle
to convince them that my doctrine was true, I told them they

we would like to speak, I told him at 5, he gave out our appointment, and invited us to his house, I asked him how many school houses were on the island, he said, four, and gave me their names, I asked him if they were free for any one to preach in, he answered in the affirmative; I took out my bible, book of Mormon, and doctrine and covenants and laid them all upon his stand, he promised to read them. the hour of meeting arrived, I preached to a full house upon the first principles of the Gospel, and bore testimony that the Lord had raised up a prophet, and had commenced to establish his church and kingdom again upon the earth, in fulfilment of His word as spoken through the ancient prophets and apostles; this was the first discourse ever delivered by any latter-day Saint upon this chain of islands; Elder Hale bore testimony. I gave out appointments for preaching in the four school houses, the people came out en masse to investigate the principles which we taught, in 14 days we preached 19 discourses, Cap. Justice Ames and wife were baptized by Elder Hale, Elder Newton, the baptist minister, with his family, attended twelve of our meetings, read the books, and was convinced by the spirit of the Lord that our doctrine was true, and he had a hard struggle in his mind to know which to do, receive, or reject it, he finally resolved to reject it,, & commenced preaching against us, he sent for Mr. Douglass, Methodist Minister, on the South Island, to come & help him; he had been long at variance with Mr. Douglass, but they became very friendly and united in a war against us. We continued preaching daily until we baptized most of the members of Mr. Newton's church, and those who owned the meeting house.

I followed Mr. Douglass to his own island, and commenced preaching to his church, and baptized a good share of his members, among whom were several sea Captains. Ministers from the main land were sent for, who came over and tryed to put a stop to the work by preaching and lying about us; but the work continued to roll on, they wished me to work a miracle to convince them that my doctrine was true, I told them they