Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-10-12
Jenson's Ira wells.
LETTER NO. XIX

al 'ue '.,oe~ and other pefiodiea''
q ., nsT ,g,re published at Honolulu a
S " s,,lv day. Twas successful N nnu
an '"y Ill items Of historical lmpor
ins .' connected with our missionary
,'ns, mon the Islands, and PARTICULAR,
l' .',.,, 5s,a in regard to the arrival AMI
'ony ',are Of Elders which have general
= r,en noted in the newspapers though
y y. o' ,ls,ys. From the time the Ameri'
hO' I rId.r left in 1883 and I'LL the ar.
g." ,, !, Apostles Ezra +. Benson and
i've, ,..,,,o SNOW and other Elders in 1901
-, In p,,le is known OF the progress or
", w." q, missionary work on the
, ,,.,,i;,n Islands; hence | made a
'a,ri,l effort to find Il the papers con
lined anything about the Mormons
Sarius iha, period. By this means |
,.,rosd tina, Captain Walter NJ. Gibson
...,,.d a, Honolulu June 3oth 1861,
..oonpauied by his daughter. and In
TSs Pacific Commercial Advertiser OF
o-'ober i,ih, 1861, a weekly paper pub
r,h,d al Honolulu. found the follow
i,g editorial which Elder Dibble copied
n the interest Of history.
KEyiyAL or noRMoSisM.
..l.,, knight.errant In the field.
wb,l. stopping Tor a day or two last
ws,k A, Makawas, East Maui, rumors
,,.ehsd us that a grand flibusiering.
"..''',sesipg. or some other mysterious
,ehsme. was on foot a, Waikiki, which
bs,ip inll view on the opposite side OF
~ valley, some sixteen miles distan.
Soon oihef reports came IN that seces.
I'M Az vas fixing there, that meetings
aere daily held with closed doors, or
,,hsf that the building m which the
meelinqs were held was guarded against
inieflopefs, that persons were being
sal,led lor secret service, etc. These
,,oons were hardly credible, yet hear.
fs Them reiterated, We fastened over
loWailuku to learn their truth or ialsity.
Reaching Kalului. we found they were
e,ssfally believed, and we were assured
(, vefsons who had seen II, that a
ffsnge ensign, supposed 10 be a seces.
sonaag, had been displayed at Walluku.
ms DAG part Of the story rather stirred
No ouf loyal blood, and McClellan's
,6ldier never longed Tor shot at the
rbels more than did we for a glimpse
q the Supposed secession bunting. In
company aiih ! d. Havekost, Esq, the
worihy tax collector Of Wailuku, we
rmoln,ed our horses and spurr,d them
No In double quick time. On arriving
n TIE village, we found that Mormon
meelIng was IN session, and that no less
Important parsonage than Water NJ.
Gibson was presiding over 1.-THE
captain Gibson" whom most OF our
Honolulu readers will remember. In
company with Mr.. Charles Gray OF
Honolulu, we Immediately proceeded 10
The Mormon meeting house, which Is
heated lew hundred yards south OF
the Protestant church. As soon as our
was observed, there was a
busy STIR among the nat YES lounging
about, and general stampede Tor the |
ynlianoe; but with the saluiation aloha,
VI pushed our way through the door,
xhieh had become filled with natives,
Laugh We met with no resistance from
tea 10 OUT entry.
Walking up TO the table, which was
A The iarthef end Of the building, we
Ieaad Captain Gibson and Mr.. II. u. |
EDDY seated behind II. whom we accost.
Cd and took a seat beside them. This |
building holds perhaps sso persons, and |
Immediately alter our entry, the natives
doAded In tll II was densely filled,
no,ty with men, there being but three
o. lsui women present. On expressing
or surprise TO Captain Gibson at find. |
w him here, he replied that he was
eiialil surprised with his present posi-.
tl9h We then asked II there was any
lo'tdilion lot the report that we had |
had that he was a Mormon. Without
agss'ly answering the question asked, |
Y Answered that he had come here as
Ihs mend Of a poor and despised class
u OUT population, that his sympathies
Adt WIN them, that this was a Nor
non gathering, and that the audience
,eailsled Of delegates from the Mormon
.a.iehei throughout the gfoup--some
anhg come from each OF the islands.
laaai, Oahu, Molokai, Laval, Maui and
1asall, aud We may here say that dur.
X residence OF twelve years on these
'Ahds, we have never met In any
lassnolage so many intelligent natives.
nose appearance and faces bespoke a
upshotly over the masses. We were
y aware there were a hundred Nor.
9ns on the group.
we slated to Captain Gibson that we
ere surprised that he did moi. during
/, hay OF two months In Honolulu.
Nuge the Tact that he came here as a
Oltiou, aud not as we had supposed
WY as traveller on his way to China
~ Vle East Indies. as he had, in con.
.baVons, given us to understand. lie
pnsl mat he had not purposely made
y oVheealmeni,that there wcre gentle.
ga ~ Honolulu who knew Tie Iact
ming Alr' Bates, Mt. Dainou and Mr.
Z, ~, We salu ina, we did not believe
!. 'l'her OF item or any one else
" iie then went on to give usa
! ap'sI ~ his history, how In crossing
Y ,olunen' he arrived in Salt Lake,
y We mere taken seriously III, thai
WV MS sickness Brigham Young sent
IVY, received him into his house
'.S,i nun and paid him the kindesi
'iihhuon during his stay OF six months
0'sn' The result OF his soloutn ,here
,,,s. ehahge OF views regarding the
n y, aug their religion as a sys.
~, (" o. p social polity, on which latter
n, p s, rag much to say, and express.
wsn Ienel lhai no other system was
nman suap'ed to the Hawaiians in
I mol win other Polyneslan races,
may here add that during our con-
'anon neither Captain Gibson nor
. /, tGady admitted that they were
"sosh OF the Mormon Cuufch. and
no s SINCE been informed by DR.,
y, united States Consul at I.ahaina ,
4 ,b bn EDDY distinctly denied to HIM !