Life of a Pioneer: Being the Autobiography of James S. Brown

CHAPTER LXIV.

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First Sabbath in Tahiti--Meet Several Persons whom I Knew over Forty Years Before--How they Remembered me--Seek Permission to hold Public Meetings--Widow of my Old Friend, John Layton, Calls on me Other Friends--Preach to the Josephites--Governor Refuses to Permit us to Hold Public Meetings--Get Advice of the United states Consul--A Lawyer's Counsel--Josephites tell of B. F. Grouard--I Explain how he had Turned into the wrong Path--The Church Never Disorganized--Missionary Labors--Greeting a French Admiral--Early Missionaries to Tahiti--Their Severe Experiences--Sixty-fourth Anniversary of my Birth--Learn of Mormons who were Hanged for Having Killed a Policeman in the Trouble when I was Arrested on my First Mission to the Islands--Meet a Native of Pitcairn's Island--His Story--Visit Tautila--Severe Voyage--A Baptism--Sail for Tubuoi--Among Strangers Celebration of a French Fete Day--Dine with the Governor--People Become less Unfriendly to us--Breaking of the Clouds--Baptize Twenty-four Persons--Encouraging Results of Missionary Efforts.