SOCIETY ISLANDERS ARE LAMANITES
Dream-Vision by Alex H. Smith in 1901

I am here reminded of a dream I had on board the steamship Australia: I saw in my dream a native, or colored man, with straight hair and smooth face, a tall, broad-shouldered, finely-formed man, dressed in a white shirt or waist, with a colored paren or hipcloth, which both sexes wear, legs and feet bare. I awoke and the vision still remained with me. I asked the meaning and was told this man represents those islanders. They are Lamanites, and are worthy and entitled to the priesthood. I was glad to receive this evidence, for I had heretofore had some scruples as to ordaining them to the high priest's office. I had never before seen one like the one shown me, but have since, dressed very similarly. —"Reminiscences," in Autumn Leaves, May, 1903.