in the branches wherever practicable. The fact that you have twenty-five such
schools now in active operation in New Zealand tells its own tale, and affords us
much encouragement with regard to the future of the Maori Saints. These institu-
tions should be carefully nurtured, that the children of the native brethren and
sisters may early learn the truths of the gospel, and the false traditions and
superstitions of their ancestors be thereby so much lessened in influence in their
after lives.

We cannot give you any other counsel with regard to the emigration of
the natives than we have hitherto done. We do not regard the present as an oppor-
tune time for such a movement. Their childlike and confiding natures would un-
doubtedly be terribly shocked by things that they would now-a-days see and hear
in the midst of the Saints. They must learn to abide in patience until the time
when the Lord signifies that some change should be made in our present instructions.
Encourage them to live their religion, and the Lord will accomplish all His purposes
with regard to them in His own time and in His own way. [Doctrine and Covenants 88:68]

We should be pleased to have you take whatever measures you and the Elders
deem wise and prudent to counteract the organized efforts of the ministers of the
various denominations to injure your influence and impede your labors amongst the
natives. Show, wherever you have opportunity, how they have progressed in true
civilization since your advent among them; that they are more virtuous, more

in the branches wherever practicable. The fact that you have twenty-five such schools now in active operation in New Zealand tells its own tale, and affords us much encouragement with regard to the future of the Maori Saints. These institutions should be carefully nurtured, that the children of the native brethren and sisters may early learn the truths of the gospel, and the false traditions and superstitions of their ancestors be thereby so much lessened in influence in their after lives.

We cannot give you any other counsel with regard to the emigration of the natives than we have hitherto done. We do not regard the present as an opportune time for such a movement. Their childlike and confiding natures would undoubtedly be terribly shocked by things that they would now-a-days see and hear in the midst of the Saints. They must learn to abide in patience until the time when the Lord signifies that some change should be made in our present instructions. Encourage them to live their religion, and the Lord will accomplish all His purposes with regard to them in His own time and in His own way.

We should be pleased to have you take whatever measures you and the Elders deem wise and prudent to counteract the organized efforts of the ministers of the various denominations to injure your influence and impede your labors amongst the natives. Show, wherever you have opportunity, how they have progressed in true civilization since your advent among them; that they are more virtuous, more