Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-04-13

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,,,.u ,,.ootl,g of tbe Twelve
al +" Vo''',' '','9 -, ,n..,a,
Apostles ln the 'huIVn VI oeSua Nn''S'
of Iatter-day saints held at Nauyoo.
No.. o. tsp Adlisou Pratt was or
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dalheu 10 'N' '''''
blessed and set apart TO go 70 tne IA
cilc Islands on mission, ny brigham
Young, assisted by lleper - hlmpali,
OrsOn Hyde ana tarley n Iralt On
the same occasion Elders Moan Rogers
Benjamin IT, Gruuard ana knOWlton
f. Hanks were blessed ana set apart TO
accompany EIler Pralt as missionaries
to the Paclhc Islands. Brother Grou-
ard was also ordained Seventy By
OrsOn Hyde. These were the first Ell
dors OF the Church of Jesus Christ OF
Latter-day saints VINO were called and
sent out 70 labor as missionaries among
people who did not speak the Eng
lish language Elder Rogers was APP
pointed to preside over the mission,
Elder Pratt had been seaiarlng
man In his younger days, and during
one OF his voyages, in me year 1872,
he had stopped at the Sandwich ISL
ands and spent about three months
there He was much charmed with
the climate and productions of the ISL
ands ana one day, when In converse
ton with President brigham Young In
NauVoo. ne expressed strong desire
10 revisit them Brother Young asked
nm II ne would be willing TO take
mission to the Islands of the Pacific
ocean he replied In the affirmative,
provided other Elders could be sent
WIN nm soon afterwards benjamin
IL. Nrf0lHIu. Moan IknHDTH ln0 knDWI-
ton F, Hanks volunteered to go, the
mst named being a consumptiye man
VINO was much attached to Elder Pratt
Ihese were some OF the circumstances
leaolnB w 10 the appointment OF the
lrst Latter-day SAINT mission to the
f0lyaeslah people.
lnursday' June l. 1876 Elders Rogers
Iratt' Grouard ana hanks started from
NauNoQ on Ihelr mission Tor the Pa
enc islshds' gong on the steamer
Narah Ann To 81 Louis, MO- Thence
they continued the journey TO Pitts
puiB Fennr where they arrived on the
lNh. Elder Pralt LETT his companions
al Evansville FOR Pleasant Garden, Ind
ana l5rother fr0uard LETT the same day
for Philadelphia. Elder liankG and
rogers tallied az Pittsburg TIL the llth,
when they also left for Philadelphia
arriving there on the 23rd, Here they
found Elder Grouard, and a few days
later II was agreed that Brothers
Gfouard and hanks should go on, and
Brother Rogers await the arrival of
Brother Pratt Elder Rogers then spent
some tlne preaching ana bapuzing In
delaware Pennsylvania and New Jer-
sey ana IN company with Elder Pratt,
Wnom ne met at Mount Holly on the
loth OF July, proceeded to New York,
ana thence 70 New Bedford, Mass
Where they round Elder Grouard. At
Yer subsequently meeting with some Of
the Apostles In Boston, Brother Pratt
hv counsel of Brigham Young, went 10
New Bedford to procure a passage for
the four Elders destined for the Pa
cilo Islands. Being unable to find a
snip going to the Sandwich Islands, he
engaged passage for himself and his
three companions on the whaling ship
Tlmoleon' bound for Tahiti Society ISL
anus, paying SlOD Tor each passenger,
me brethren III Salem ana Boston con
flputed literally toward helping the
missionaries, as dld also the brethren
IN New Bedford, particularly Brother
Phillp Il. Lewis, VINO donated $500 to-
Ward thelr passage and OUTFIT. After
paying their passage, the Elders had
SSV iett Tor contingent expenses,
Monday, october ., 1913, Elder Pratt.
Gfouafd Hanks and Rogers, who had
again met NJ New Bedford, boarded
the Ilmoleon captain Plaskett, and pot
under way. Elder Hanks was suffer
ing very severely with consumption
When they sailed from New Bedford |
For several days after sailing from |
New Bedford the weather was rough !
ana Elders Grouard and Rogers suffered
considerable with SEA sickness, an ex- !
perlence which Elder Pratt escaped, he |
being uaed TO sea-taring life,
Brother hanks, though not sea-sick. |
was confined to his bed most of the time. /
as the disease with which he was suf- /
ferlng kept gaining on him every day. I
The other missionaries took the best .
possible care OF their sick companion. /
daily rubbing him with flannels and /.
amounting him In the name Of the Lord. 1
lie never failed to receive immediate /
relief under such circumstances. but !
the Elders seemed TO be powerless In /
regard to approaching the root Of the
disease, which kept lis regular march .
reducing HIN from day 10 day until he
became almost living skeleton, By
the LIST Of November his cough took a
different turn; II was hard for hin 90
raise the matter from his lungs, which
seemed stuffed up, and on the 3rd of
November he breathed his last Elder
Hanks was the first Latter-day Saint
Elder who died at sea while on a for
eign mission.
Brother Addison Pratt in giving the
particulars Of Elder Hanks sickness
and DEATH writes:
II had no fearful apprehension ~
Elder Hanks till the 2nd (of November
at low H. was called by Brother
Rogers TO relieve him and stand my
regular watch with Brother Hanks
then had fearful apprehensions that his
dissolution was near at hand At 10
o'clock a. m his eXtremlties were cold.
and the large drops OF cold sweat COW
cred his emacated system. II was
with great difficulty he could raise
strength enough 10 throw OFF from his |
lungs the rafting phlegm that was con-
tinually threatening to strange him.
At that moment as / stood watching .
him he naao "a violent struggle To /