Report on the Hawaiian Mission Sunday Schools

My brethren and sisters, I rejoice tonight to meet in this capacity and to report the Sabbath Schools of the Hawaiian Mission. According to our report we lead in Sabbath School work in the Missions outside of Zion. We have more engaged and more schools than any other Mission on the earth. We have sixty-five schools, organized with superintendents, with their assistants, secretaries and treasurers, together with their aids; and we have over 2,700 members of the Sabbath Schools. The children of that land rejoice in singing the songs of Zion, and the most of them sing in the English tongue, and we feel that the Sunday School work is growing in that land, and we are proud that we stand in the lead. It is true the gospel has been preached in that land for fifty-five years, and Sunday Schools have been organized for many, many years, but the work is growing there. And the Sunday Schools send greetings to the Sunday Schools in Zion and especially to the General Superintendent, even President Joseph F. 'Smith, for the people look upon him as their father, he having labored among them so many years. The work in the Mission is prospering and we are adding to the Church each year. We now have upwards of 7,000 souls, and, as I said, we are still gathering into the fold, and we feel that we have not laborers enough for the harvest. We are now a part of the United States, and we feel quite at home. We used to think that the Sandwich Islands were almost out of the world, but today we hear, twice a day, all the important events of the globe, as we are now connected by cable. The work of the Lord is growing and increasing in that land and we rejoice in it. We rejoice in the Sabbath School work, especially, for we are trying to teach the young people as well as the older ones (for we have many aged ones who belong to the schools) the principles of the gospel, the plan of life and salvation; and I pray that the blessings of the Lord may be upon that nation, upon the Sunday Schools on those islands, together with all other lands wheresoever the gospel is being preached. May the Lord help us who are engaged in this work, both at home and abroad, that we may be true to the covenants that we have made with our Father and with one another, and that the Sunday Schools may grow and increase, is my prayer in the name of Jesus. Amen. ¶