his flock. The first two we baptized was a
sea Captain & his wife by the name of Justis Eames
Brother Johnathan H Hale went down into the sea
and baptized them on Sunday the 3rd of Sept the
first ever baptized upon any Island of the Sea in
this dispensation to my knowledge, and on the next
sabbath I baptized his Brother Ebenezar Eames another
Sea Captain and a young Lady. Mr Newton the
Baptist Minister now commenced a war agaist us
against us and sent to the South Island for
a Mr Douglass a Methodist Minister to
(with whom he had been at variance for
years) to come over and help him put down
mormonism. He came over and held a conf-
-erence and got all the people together they could
and he railed against Joseph the prophet and the Book
of Mormon and he took the Book in his hand
and with an out stretched [hand] declaired he knew none
of the Judgments of God that would come upon him
for rejected that Book as the word of God

his flock. The first two we baptized was a sea Captain & his wife by the name of Justis Eames Brother Johnathan H Hale went down into the sea and baptized them on Sunday the 3rd of Sept the first ever baptized upon any Island of the Sea in this dispensation to my knowledge, and on the next sabbath I baptized his Brother Ebenezar Eames another Sea Captain and a young Lady. Mr Newton the Baptist Minister now commenced a war against us and sent to the South Island for a Mr Douglass a Methodist Minister (with whom he had been at variance for years) to come over and help him put down mormonism. He came over and held a conf-erence and got all the people together they could and he railed against Joseph the prophet and the Book of Mormon and he took the Book in his hand and with an out stretched hand declaired he knew none of the Judgments of God that would come upon him for rejected that Book as the word of God