But little ministerial labor was furnished the island until the General Conference convened in the month of March, 1895, at which time a vote was taken that “Elder Gates and his wife, with Mr. and Mrs. Brown as teachers for the Chinese, go to Honolulu to engage in missionary labor.” The work of teaching began at once, and Elder Gates, although in feeble health, did what he could in pushing the work. A physician and nurses soon followed the missionaries, and the work in that line of the message was well begun. GSAM 440.1