Encouraging Words from the Sandwich Islands.
IN a private letter dated October 28, Brother A. LaRue gives some interesting incidents of his mission work on these islands. He says:— “While talking with one lady on the subject of religion, I asked her if she ever read our papers, at the same time handing her one. ‘O, the SIGNS OF THE TIMES!’ said she, ‘I had two or three of them seven or eight years ago; and I thought there was such good reading in them that I saved them. And, don’t you think, I got to thinking about them, and went and read them over again. I will just let you see them.’ And she went into another room, and brought them out. I noticed the date was 1876. They were so worn that only two leaves hung together. “I visited one Catholic lady who is an excellent and sensible woman. She told me that the prayer book did not work well with her any more. When she wanted to pray for one thing, the book prayed for something else; and there seemed to be a clashing all the time, and it grew worse and worse. This lady can now dispense with the prayer book without a struggle. “A few days ago, an engineer, an entire stranger, asked me for one of our papers. I gave him one. He told me he thought Mrs. White’s articles were good; in fact, it was a good, sound paper. He invited me to come and see him. I have done so, and have already sold him two books. “All three of these persons subscribed for the SIGNS. I can pay the rent, and keep up the other expenses of the mission, by selling books and taking subscriptions.”