The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-04-24
Australian Letter
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dreds and thousands Of souls are here
and Is a land of interest. The greatest
part Is heavily wooded with hard wood
and bush fires are quite frequent in
the country places, sweeping the
prairies and destroying homes. Such
fires are often read of but seldom is
their seriousness realized except by
those who can see plainly the destruc.
ton.
The benefits arising from the per-
forming of the call made of goodly
number of Latter-Day-Saints TO 20
into the world and set forth the Cos
pei TO those who are in darkness, are
great. | believe benefits derived from
missions along ways from home are not
had in any other way than mission
to the Islands or foreign land, such
as Australia In the first place, there
is a great sacrifice in leaving parents,
! brothers, sisters and friends and going
so far away from home, which when
overcome brings a rich outpouring of
the holy spirit on the head OF the
elders who have courage to accept the
call and help roll on the work that he
owes his fellow men. Freely he has
received and freely he must give. The
next thing he considers is the long
way Ia which he has to travel and the
treatment the different people give
him. In his start from home he Is
seated in fine palace car which soon
delivers him at San Francisco. He
has ALREADY seen many interesting
things travelling over those rough
mountain ranges. He again continues
his Journey after few days visiting
here and his home is now on the sea
for little less than a month, and In
times of rough weather his mind is
broadened and had one sickness which
he had not had while on land. Day
after day he sails on, finally reaches
Australia, tired, but after a little rest
decides he would hate to have not had
his experience. He has memories OF
things he will long remember and has
developed an appreciation for the con-
dition that surrounds his mountain
home.
On reaching his field of labor he has
crossed the torrid zone and has again
gone long ways across the equator,
nearly as far south as home Is north.
/ In passing the different Islands he
has seen the people who inhabit them,
also seen the different plant life in
!, those places as their to see and learn
many things about those people, but
in careful comparison finds they resem.
BILE their cousins In North America
who were their when Columbus dis.
covered it. Their stories and old
traditions are sufficient as they run
hand in hand and are the same class
of people without any doubt.
/ landed their February %, 1906, and
spent little less than eight months
on Islands Tlutula, Upolu and Savii
and found good work being done by
the hard working elders, preaching
the Gospel and teaching the natives
TO work and how to improve their old
ways.
The elders have taken upon them.
selves this great task and are roofing
them out. A few years ago the church
brought tract of land and this is be.
ing used for homes by those who still
live lives in accordance to the laws anC
regulations. 1t is hard in some cases
for them to lay by their old laws and
traditions, for just reflect back even
one century ago many grandfather
met.each other at the soup kettle anC
see If you can realize what is being
done, We may ask, have the people
who go there done any thing for thu
natives2 Well, If am to answer this