DESIGNED FOR THE INSTRUCTION ANDENCOURAGEMENT OF YOUNGLATTER-DAY SAINTS
COMPILED AND PUBLISHED BYGEO. C. LAMBERT
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 1915
"Gems of Reminiscence," the title selected for this volume, issufficiently comprehensive to include incidents from real life on awide variety of subjects, so long as the effect is to promote faith.
The articles included in this volume are sufficiently varied as tosubject matter to interest most of those into whose hands it may come.
In making this volume double the size—that is, double the number ofpages—of its predecessors, we have acted upon the suggestion of aliterary friend who has had enough experience in publishing books torealize how difficult it is to secure any profit from publishing smalleditions of books of 96 pages each and binding the volumes separatelyat the low price of 25 cents per volume, retail. The opinion wasexpressed that most of those whose taste would lead them to buy sucha book would just as willingly pay 50 cents retail for a volume thatcontained double the number of pages in the same style of binding.We decided to try the experiment and if this venture meets withencouragement, future volumes issued will probably be in the largersize and the price 50 cents per volume instead of the smaller volumesat the price of 25 cents each, as in the past.
That there is an abundance of material in the experience of faithfulmembers of the Church to furnish subject matter for an indefinitenumber of volumes, of a faith-promoting nature, and that the youngpeople of the community may be benefited more by that class of readingthan any other, is as evident now as it ever has been in the past.
We bespeak the interest of all faithful members of the Church inthis work of providing the best of reading matter and at the sametime perpetuating a knowledge of incidents in their lives that mightotherwise be lost to posterity, and trust that all who have hadexperience that would be faith-promoting if published, will furnishus the material to continue the publication of the Faith-PromotingSeries as long as there is need for it. We can not promise thempecuniary profit for so doing, but to those who will conscientiouslyand intelligently help in the manner indicated we can promise the kindof reward that has thus far encouraged us, that is, a consciousness ofhaving placed benefits within the reach of young Latter-day Saints thatwill be appreciated in the future if not now.
James S. Brown's Experience Previous to Being Sent as a Missionaryto the Society Islands—Remarkable Predictions by Presidents BrighamYoung and Willard Richards—Perilous Journey to California—TragicFate of Most of the Company—Arrival in San Francisco—Landingin Tahiti—Opposition from Priests and Ministers—Governor ofFrench Protectorate Arrayed Against Him—Elders Scatter Out—LewdWomen Instigated by Ministers try to Entrap him—His FirstConvert—Recognized by a Native who had seen him in a Dream.
Catholic Priests Jealous of his Success—Arrested on a Trumped-upCharge—Tried Before Governor's Aid-de-Camp—Frightful Scene Amonga School of Whales—Farce of a Trial before the Governor of theProtectorate—Inspired to Plead his Own Cause—Impression MadeUpon the Governor—American Consul's Friendly Act—Banished fromTahiti—Befriended by a Queen.
Land Among Cannibals—Denounced as