I feel that we as saints can hail with joy each new year, knowing as we do know, that each one will bring about great changes for the good and welfare of the Israel of our God, and each one brings us nearer our redeemprtion, which God will surely give unto us in His own due time, and may this present one bring about liberty for the saints of God, if that would be for our best good.

by the blessings of God, they improved much in the course of their labors, this mention is made to show that they were blessed and inspired of the Lord for the work they had been appointed and set apart to perform. We feel that when the revision is completed that there will be a very good and correct translation, one that will be quite plain, and will convey to the minds of the Maori people the meaning in the same plainness and simplicity and with the same accuracy, the glorious truths contained in that devine record, that our edition does to us.

We have recently returned from a three mounths trip to the north part of the Island, and are very thank- ful to be able to state that the great majority of the Saints, are endeavoring to live in accordance with the principles of the Gospel, and they manifest quite a love for the truth, as also for the servants of God, and awe are able to see a marked improvement in their con- dition