if they were free for any one of to preach in. He said yes I took
out my Bible, Book of Mormon, & Doctrin & Covenants and laid them
all upon his stand he took them up and examined them but asked no
question ^but said said he said would read them^ the hour of meeting arrived, the house was full I preached to
the people upon the first principle of the gospels 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 fulfillment of the word of
God or 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 to the truth of what I had said I gave liberty to all present
to make any remarks no one spoke, at the close of the meeting I gave out an
appointments for preaching in the four school houses for the next four following evenings
the people came out in mass to investigate the principles which we taught the first
^in^ 14 days of our stay upon the Island we preached 19 discourses. I thus opened
a door for baptisms when Capt Justice Ames and his wife came forward
and were baptized by Elder Hale being the first baptized upon those Islands
Elder Newton the Baptist Minister with his family attended about a dozen of the ^twelve^
first of our meetings, read the Books, and was convinced by the spirit of the Lord
that our Doctrin was true and he had a hard struggle for days in his mind
to know which to do either to receive or reject it. He finally resolved to
reject it and took a stand against us. He commenced preaching against us
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 Douglas but they now made
friends and united in a war against us but they did not stop the work of God
we continued preaching daily untill we baptized most of the members of Mr
Newtons, Church, and those who owned the meeting house. I then followed
Mr Douglass home to his own Island and commenced preaching to his
Church and baptized a good share of his members ^A number of those that we baptized were^ they also sent for other
^sea Captains,^ Ministers from the Main Land 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 had rejected the truth and they would see signs but not unto Salvation

if they were free for any one of to preach in. He said yes I took out my Bible, Book of Mormon, & Doctrin & Covenants and laid them all upon his stand he said he said would read them the hour of meeting arrived, the house was full I preached to the people upon the first principle of the gospels 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 fulfillment of the word of God or 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 evenings the people came out in mass to investigate the principles which we taught in 14 days we preached 19 discourses. when Capt 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 Doctrin 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 also sent for Mr Douglas the Methodist Minister on the South Island to come over and help him he had been long at variance with Mr Douglas but they now made friends and united in a war against us but they did not stop the work of God we continued preaching daily untill we baptized most of the members of Mr Newtons Church, and those who owned the meeting house. I then followed Mr Douglass home to his own Island and commenced preaching to his Church and baptized a good share of his members A number that we baptized were they also sent for other sea Captains, Ministers from the Main Land 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 had rejected the truth and they would see signs but not unto Salvation