Tahiti, Society Islands
By B. J. Cady
PAPEETE.—Since I last wrote you, I have visited three of the other islands. Our work on Raiatea is progressing. The home on our plantation at Avera is doing a good work for those who are connected with it. Some of the youth are making rapid progress. We hope to see faithful workers go out from this place by and by to fight the battles of the Lord. We think that good work might be done on the island of Tahaa. There are a few Sabbath-keepers there. We have but one on Huaheine at present. In Papeete, Tahiti, our health food store and book depository are doing fairly well. If we had a larger oven so we could do more baking, it would be much better. Many of the leading people of Papeete deal with us. There are several here and at Raiatea who expect to be baptized soon. In the great disaster in the Tuamotu, where several hundred were killed in a dreadful storm, none of our people were drowned. A number of them had left there a while before. We did not feel the effects of it much here in Tahiti. At Raiatea some damage was done. I expect to go around the island to Paea next Sunday, and assist the brethren for a few weeks while the church is being built. We expected to begin it some time ago, but the epidemic of measles hindered us. That disease had not been in these islands for twenty-eight years, so when it did come, many took it. Our courage is good in the Lord. B. J. CADY.