the saints of this Island that has been furnished with
seats; it was filled to its upmost capacity during
the meeting of Conference, and their dusky faces beamed
with joy as they listened to the inspired words of the
Servants of God, and those that had the privilege of
speaking. During our meetings many expressed them-
selves as being filled with joy and rejoicings for the
things they had heard, and the power they had felt,
and desired to be firm and steadfast unto the end for
they knew it was the true Gospel, Ect.

During the whole of our conference there was nothing
occured to mar our pleasure, or the peace of the company;
all was love and good will. Ample accommodation
were made for feeding and caring for the whole com-
pany of not less then four hundred souls. Quite a
number of these where outsiders, who had come to
listen to the truth. It is no small affair to provide
and care for a gathering of this kind, as all that come
have to be fed during the time of their stay, by those
who live at the place of gathering. It is done by free
will gifts, some making large presents of food; a
non-member of the Church, brought a large van, drawn
by four large horses some fifteen miles, containing
a ton of flour, eight 40 lbs bags of sugar, a sack of rice,
a box of tea, four sacks of shell fish, and a quantity
of sweet and Irish potatoes. I mention this to show
the liberality of the natives, in this respects, and the