Religion: Stake No. 114

For 85 years missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints have labored in the Hawaiian Islands. In 1919 President Heber Jedediah Grant went there to dedicate a temple at the village of Laie. Hawaiian Mormons now number 14,000 saints. Last week stubble-bearded, 78-year-old President Grant returned to Salt Lake City after a second visit to Hawaii, during which he organized a new Mormon "stake" (ecclesiastical unit)— the Church's 114th and its first outside North America. When Heber J. Grant arrived in Honolulu with his trusty First Counselor, heavy-jowled Joshua Reuben...

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