Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-04-29

Inie. oahu. III. L.. Arfll II, hs's
To the Editor
Durinx thc pus, Few days the Elders
and saints 81 tho Hawaiian tniralon
Holy Spirit IN the sgml.annuai com
ference. which concluded here at Laic,
Apdi 9TH
The house. was crowded TO Overlooking.
thcfv being between four ana fiNc
hundred In attendance. Representa-
tiveH from most oil the branches
throughout the Islands were present.
while sunday schools, Mutual linz
proyement associations. Primaries and
iieiief fOcietics. from West Maui.
Honolulu and Waikiki Joined with "
IN making the good time We have had.
The lessons 81 the different classes were
Interesting aH well M instructive, In
spiritual feast Twelve meetings were
held. The people were cxhorted to
cease fnult-nndiuE, rely ON tho power
OF God and not ~ man. and remember
their tlthea and Offerings before the
Lord. that they might gain the hlcss-
stress was also laid on the way some
~ the people abused tho Priesthood
In administering To the sick by for
naklnT the true ordinances % the Dos.
pei and returning 10 the aorcory OF their
forcfhthcfH
During the concluding session the
names % the general authorities to-
gether with the appointments for the
ensuing six months were presented ana
unanimously sustained.
The appointments are as follows
Samuel n. Woollcy, president %
mission Vim. u. Hiil. Edwin w. ri-
field. samuel paget, chas. W. Han
cock. chaS c. lush, John A.. ALL
strum, ThoE, A.. Waddonps. WIN. a.
Williams. VIM II. Davis. Farley r.
Munser. Robert n. FAINT. Joseph N.
Fisher Albert ~. Bellirton, W. ., Cole.
WIN. rurdoc NJ, N. hush. and Troa.
II. FAR. together with Sisters Alice
~ Woolicy. Elisabeth Williams. Jennie
y Musser, Ellen Cole and Margaret
Fineld, a. his assistants.
Temporal appointments. Samuel u.
Wooliey, manager Of the f.aie planta-
tioni W, !. Cole, assistant manager,
chns. T.. hush. school teacher: Jennie
4, MuaHar. assistant school teacher.
Thos, u, farr. bookkecper and atorc.
keeper, Jos. ~. Fisher and WIN. II.
Davis to work AZ their trades aa
mechanics on the Laic plantation,
Island appointments
Honolulu conference ThOs. A. Wad-
dnup~, president, with Abraham Fer
nandez and ]. w. iona as assistants;
oahu, Jna 4. AhlHirom and sam Luai
Pardoc; North Hawaii Albert a.
llelliston and jos iuahiwi; south
Hawaii. VIM. u, nm aud samuel
paHct llilo, Edwin W. Finold and
VIM, A. Williams. West Maui. Farley
y MuHscr and ~. n. bush; East
Maui, Robert II. SAINT and Lima Ka-
hnunacle.
Many are tho testimonies born By tho
Elders ~ the power ~ God made
manifest In casting out devils. healing
tho rick. etc.. during the past six
months ~ their lahorf, The Gospel
has been promulgated among the
llnwniianH since 1850 There have
been i55 persons baptized and i0s child
ron blessed since last october In this
mission.
A. conference concluded spirit Of
unity. love and cnntentment seemed
manifest, and many were the we'll
wlfheH aud hearty hand-hakca ono
with another.
on February aisi. Elder Henry II.
nrfensldeH set sail from Honu.nlu for
Australia, having had his mission
changed from this TO that part VI the
Lords vineyard.
owing 20 the release 81 Elder Daniel
Hansen, who returned home some time
ago 10 look after his business affalra.
his wife, clara, has also been honorably
released % return home from this mis-
sion.
As some of the Hawaiian Saints are
emigrating 10 Zion this season Elder
Jos. a. Vaughan has been honorably
released TO take charge OF the com
pany,
During the past six months there
have been planted about ssventy-nve