Untitled article by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 9, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 23.

FROM THE SOCIETY ISLANDS.

By Editor

It is well known by the readers of our paper that Elder B. J. Cady and wife are laboring in the Society Islands at Raiatea. In a letter dated January 21, written to Brother J. R. McCoy, which we have been kindly permitted to read, Brother Cady writes very encouragingly of their work there. He says the work seems to move a little slow now on account of the difficulty in learning the language, and yet there is much interest among the people, and good progress is being made. He thinks that the Society Islands would be a good opening for a school for that part of the field. Students, in his opinion, could be educated cheaper there than in any other place. He also feels that it was very much better for them to stop at the Society Islands than to travel on with the ship, for there he has learned so much more, and has been able to do so much better work, than in going from place to place. "The ideas," he says, "we formed of these people, while upon the ship, were very incorrect, and we know better how to labor among them now than we did then."

Just now their school has a vacation. The last of the last term one hundred and five scholars were enrolled, and they expect to have more when the school opens again. The health of himself and wife is good, and the climate of the island is pleasant and healthful. It is the place, he says, where they would be contented to work the rest of their lives, if that is where the Lord wants them to be.