,,gems ,,of ,,reminiscence ,,seventeenth ,,book ,,of ,,the ,,faith ,,promoting ,,series ,,designed ,,for ,,the ,,instruction ,,and ,,encouragement ,,of ,,young ,,latter-,,day ,,saints ,,compiled ,,and ,,published ,,by ,,geo4 ,c4 ,,lambert ,,salt ,,lake ,,city1 ,,utah #aiae ,,preface ,gems of ,reminiscence1 the title selected for this volume1 is sufficiently comprehensive to include incidents from real life on a wide variety of subjects1 so long as the effect is to promote faith4 ,the articles included in this volume are sufficiently varied as to subject matter to interest most of those into whose hands it may come4 ,in making this volume double the size--that is1 double the number of pages--of its predecessors1 we have acted upon the suggestion of a literary friend who has had enough experience in publishing books to realize how difficult it is to secure any profit from publishing small editions of books of #if pages each and binding the volumes separately at the low price of #be cents per volume1 retail4 ,the opinion was expressed that most of those whose taste would lead them to buy such a book would just as willingly pay #ej cents retail for a volume that contained double the number of pages in the same style of binding4 ,we decided to try the experiment and if this venture meets with encouragement1 future volumes issued will probably be in the larger size and the price #ej cents per volume instead of the smaller volumes at the price of #be cents each1 as in the past4 ,that there is an abundance of material in the experience of faithful members of the ,church to furnish subject matter for an indefinite number of volumes1 of a faith-promoting nature1 and that the young people of the community may be benefited more by that class of reading than any other1 is as evident now as it ever has been in the past4 ,we bespeak the interest of all faithful members of the ,church in this work of providing the best of reading matter and at the same time perpetuating a knowledge of incidents in their lives that might otherwise be lost to posterity1 and trust that all who have had experience that would be faith-promoting if published1 will furnish us the material to continue the publication of the ,faith-,promoting ,series as long as there is need for it4 ,we can not promise them pecuniary profit for so doing1 but to those who will conscientiously and intelligently help in the manner indicated we can promise the kind of reward that has thus far encouraged us1 that is1 a consciousness of having placed benefits within the reach of young ,latter-day ,saints that will be appreciated in the future if not now4 ,,contents ,,among ,,cannibals4 ,,chapter ,i4 ,james ,s4 ,brown's ,experience ,previous to ,being ,sent as a ,missionary to the ,society ,islands--,remarkable ,predictions by ,presidents ,brigham ,young and ,willard ,richards--,perilous ,journey to ,california--,tragic ,fate of ,most of the ,company--,arrival in ,san ,francisco--,landing in ,tahiti--,opposition from ,priests and ,ministers--,governor of ,french ,protectorate ,arrayed ,against ,him--,elders ,scatter ,out--,lewd ,women ,instigated by ,ministers try to ,entrap him--,his ,first ,convert--,recognized by a ,native who had seen him in a ,dream4 ,,chapter ,,ii4 ,catholic ,priests ,jealous of his ,success--,arrested on a ,trumped-up ,charge--,tried ,before ,governor's ,aid-de-,camp--,frightful ,scene ,among a ,school of ,whales--,farce of a ,trial before the ,governor of the ,protectorate--,inspired to ,plead his ,own ,cause--,impression ,made ,upon the ,governor--,american ,consul's ,friendly ,act--,banished from ,tahiti--,befriended by a ,queen4 ,,chapter ,,iii4 ,land ,among ,cannibals--,denounced as the ,american ,plant--,his ,destruction ,demanded--,sentenced to be ,roasted and ,eaten--,fire ,prepared--,his ,defiance of the ,rabid ,host--,effect ,upon the ,wild ,horde ,who ,were ,eager to ,roast and ,devour ,him--,fierce ,fight ,among ,his ,opponents4 ,,parkin ,,reminiscence4 ,,chapter ,i4 ,promise to ,pay ,money ,with ,only ,faith to ,back ,it--,how the ,money was ,provided--,lesson ,his ,wife ,drew ,from ,it4 ,,chapter ,,ii4 ,ashamed to ,pay ,tithing--,loss of ,crop--,lesson ,he ,learned ,by ,it--,potatoes ,purchased to ,pay ,delinquent ,tithing--,no ,loss of ,potato ,crop ,since4 ,,chapter ,,iii4 ,farming on ,shares--,a ,new ,vocation--,future ,home ,shown in ,vision--,home ,recognized ,when ,first ,seen in ,utah--,reputation ,gained as a ,faithful and ,thorough ,worker--,providential ,fulfillment of ,vision--,home ,viewed as a ,sacred ,heritage4 ,,chapter ,,iv4 ,ambitious to ,work in a ,goal ,mine--,day ,spent in ,mine as a ,spectator--,fatal ,accident--,his ,narrow ,escape from ,being a ,victim4 ,,chapter ,v4 ,resort to ,mining--,caught in a ,snowslide--,carried a ,mile ,down the ,mountain ,as ,if ,fired ,from a ,catapult--,miraculous ,escape--,fails to ,find ,companion--,return to ,mine and ,then ,home--,companion's ,subsequent ,escape4 ,,chapter ,,vi4 ,father ,john ,parkin a ,pugilist--,defends a ,mormon ,elder--,shelters ,him ,from a ,storm and ,learns ,something of ,mormonism--,whole ,family ,embrace the ,gospel4 ,,chapter ,,vii4 ,selling a ,load of ,carrots to ,an ,ex-,missionary1 ,whose ,parsimony is ,exhibited--,some ,reflections ,thereon4 ,a ,,sailor-,,saint',s ,,adventures4 ,,chapter ,i4 ,e4 ,r4 ,s4 ,schnelle's ,belief in a ,providence ,over ,his ,life--,birth and ,succession of ,accidents--,goes to ,sea as ,cabin ,boy--,gruel ,treatment--,pumping ,sugar and ,water--,ship ,crushed ,against ,breakwater--,reckless ,jump--,woes as a ,cook4 ,,chapter ,,ii4 ,embarks as ,ordinary ,seaman--,captain's ,premonition and ,sailors' ,fear--,amazone ,wrecked--,dying ,sailor's ,vision--,grewsome ,seat--a ,typhoon--,ship ,seized by ,french--,travel in ,russia--,finds ,a ,wife--,converted to ,mormonism4 ,,chapter ,,iii4 ,sent to ,hospital--,blue ,jacket ,converted--,warned by ,spirit to ,leave ,ship--,disobeys ,warning--,narrow ,escape ,when ,ship ,founders--,a ,dangerous ,fall--,led by ,inspiration--,inspired ,promise ,fulfilled--,work in ,temple--,departure for ,mission4 ,,obtaining ,,genealogies4 ,at ,solicitation of ,saints in ,utah1 ,engages in ,genealogical ,research ,while ,serving as a ,missionary--,takes a ,special ,mission for ,such ,work--,impression ,that ,he ,was ,receiving ,help from the ,spirit ,world--,search for ,williams' ,genealogies--,a ,sign and a ,mutual ,impression--,valuable ,data ,obtained form a ,stranger1 ,who ,was ,evidently inspired--,research of ,chamberlain ,family ,record ,helped by a ,stranger ,who ,was ,also ,evidently ,inspired to ,do ,so--,valuable ,records ,providentially ,found in ,unexpected ,place4 ,,warned ,,by ,,the ,,spirit4 ,,chapter ,i4 ,chauncey ,w4 ,west ,sent on a ,mission to ,asia--,dreams of the ,wreck of a ,vessel ,upon ,which ,he had ,engaged ,passage--,left the ,ship1 and ,afterwards ,learned ,from the ,grew of the ,vessel ,being ,wrecked ,just as ,he ,had ,dreamed that it ,would be--,while ,awaiting ,another ,opportunity to ,ship to ,california was ,prompted to ,vacate a ,house ,where ,he and ,companion ,elder ,were ,staying--,house ,immediately ,afterwards ,crushed by ,large ,stone ,rolling ,down ,from ,side of ,mountain4 ,,chapter ,,ii4 ,elder ,james ,lawson ,inspired to ,quit a ,steamboat on ,which he was a ,passenger--,jumped on a ,flatboat--,a ,few moments later the ,steamboat ,sank1 and most of the ,passengers were ,drowned4 ,,chapter ,,iii4 ,comforting ,assurance ,experienced by ,a4 ,o4 ,smoot ,during a ,storm at ,sea--,his ,narrow ,escape from being a ,victim of the ,saluda ,disaster--,his ,account of the ,explosion4 ,,chapter ,,iv4 ,series of ,escapes ,experienced by ,president ,woodruff ,through ,heeding the ,spirit's ,warnings--,instance of ,failing to do so4 ,,recalled ,,by ,,elder ,,heber ,j4 ,,grant4 ,excerpts from ,discourse ,delivered in the ,tabernacle1 ,salt ,lake ,city1 ,april #bf1aiad--,methodist ,episcopal ,minister ,converted to ,mormonism--,goes to ,england as a ,mormon ,missionary--,calls ,upon ,his ,former ,minister--,his ,undignified ,reception--,anti ,mormon ,assertion ,disproved by ,facts--,a ,minister's ,confession--,puzzling ,questions ,propounded to ,ministers1 ,unanswered--,attitude of ,latter-,day ,saints ,thereon--,unseen ,evidence of ,power--,a ,prediction by the ,gift of ,tongues that was ,literally ,fulfilled--,truth ,only ,strengthened by ,attempts to ,overthrow it--,karl ,g4 ,maeser's ,conversion--,his ,pledge and its ,fulfillment--,ben ,butler's ,advice4 ,a ,,busy ,,life ,,chapter ,i4 ,anson ,call's ,birth and ,character--,investigated ,mormonism to ,disprove it1 and ,became ,converted--,impediment in ,his ,speech ,cured ,when ,administered to--,an ,anti-,mormon ,missourian--,buy ,farms in ,caldwell ,county--,the ,prophet ,visits ,missouri--,advises ,abandonment of ,homes--,mob ,tries to ,prevent their ,removal--,flee by ,night--,adam-,ondi-,ahman and ,far ,west ,besieged4 ,,chapter ,,ii4 ,suffering from ,gold ,weather--,anson ,visits ,elk ,horn--,captured and ,ill-,treated by a ,mob--,treats the ,mob to ,whiskey1 and ,escapes--,tiresome ,journey to ,far ,west--,visits ,his ,farm ,contrary to ,counsel--,finds his ,property in ,possession of ,mobocrats1 who ,assault ,him--,apostates ,try to ,use ,anson to ,discredit the ,prophet--,anson's ,fidelity4 ,,chapter ,,iii4 ,removal to ,illinois--,a ,perilous ,journey--,overtaken by the ,prophet ,while ,escaping from ,missouri ,prison--,anson and ,wife ,visit in ,ohio--,locate in ,macedonia--,remove to ,nauvoo--,mission to ,ohio--,prophet's ,vision and ,prediction as to ,saints ,locating in ,west--,judge ,thomas' ,advice--,service as a ,delegate4 ,,chapter ,,iv4 ,judge ,thomas' ,willingness to ,sacrifice the ,prophet--,vain ,efforts to ,see and ,report to the ,prophet--,perfidy of ,reynolds ,cahoon and ,alpheus ,cutler--,prophet's ,last ,speech--,news of the ,martyrdom--,its ,effect--,atrocities of ,mob4 ,,chapter ,v4 ,preparations for ,abandonment of ,nauvoo--,journey ,westward--,winter ,near ,indian ,camp--,test of ,fealty--,westward ,journey ,temporarily ,abandoned--,employment in ,missouri--,journey to ,utah--,choice of ,home--,mission to ,colonize ,parowan--,mission to ,colonize ,fillmore--,massacre of ,gunnison ,party4 ,,chapter ,,vi4 ,call's ,fort ,established--,acts as ,deputy ,u4 ,s4 ,marshal--,mission to ,colonize ,carson ,valley--,prepares to ,burn ,home--,the ,move ,south--,brother ,killed by ,indians--,call's ,landing ,established--,his ,last ,days4 ,,elder ,,brown',s ,,experience ,frigid ,trip on ,lonely ,road--,team ,exhausted--,agony of ,freezing--,prayer for ,deliverance--,friend ,inspired to ,go to ,his ,relief--,sheep ,herder ,inspired to ,move ,camp--,effects of ,freezing on ,feet4 ,,chapter ,,ii4 ,sent on a ,mission--,stricken with ,chills and ,fever--,president of ,mission ,proffers to ,release ,him--,unwilling to be ,released--,instantly ,healed when ,administered to--,twin ,boys ,healed in ,answer to ,elder ,brown's ,prayer--,elder ,brown ,has a ,relapse--,instantly ,healed when ,again ,administered to--,again ,urged to ,accept ,his ,release--,field of ,labor ,changed--,health ,fails1 and ,he is ,sent ,home--,reproved by ,president ,woodruff--,victim of a ,street ,car ,accident--,healed in ,answer to ,prayer4 ,,remarkable ,,patriarchal ,,blessing4 ,dr4 ,gledhill's ,wife ,operated ,upon ,repeatedly for ,internal ,tumor--,blessed by a ,patriarch--,promised that ,she ,should ,recover and ,give ,birth to ,more ,children--,scientific ,opinions ,upset by ,fulfillment of ,inspired ,promise4 ,,lambert ,,reminiscence4 ,applies for ,work ,upon ,nauvoo ,temple--,accepts ,work ,without ,prospect of ,pay--,his ,hat ,stoned--,offered ,work by ,lucifer1 who ,displays ,abundance of ,gold--,journey ,westward--,money ,providentially ,furnished for ,completion of ,wagon--,money for ,medicine ,obtained in ,like ,mysterious ,way--,arrival in ,winter ,quarters--,ambition to ,go ,west ,with ,pioneers--,plan ,foiled by ,indians ,killing ,team ,animals--,president ,young's ,confidence--,new ,shoes ,providentially ,found--,dislocated ,arm ,providentially ,restored to ,use4 ,a ,,timely ,,warning4 ,visit to a ,volcano--,madam ,pele's ,hair--,narrow ,escape from ,falling into ,volcano4 ,,one ,,of ,,nature',s ,,gentlemen4 ,fine ,specimen of ,maori--,effect of the ,gospel ,upon ,him--,his ,excellent ,family4 ,,praying ,,to ,,death4 ,attempt of ,hawaiian ,priest to ,pray ,mormon ,elder to ,death--,his ,failure and ,hawaiian ,discomfiture4 ,,among ,,cannibals ,,chapter ,i4 ,,james ,s4 ,,brown',s ,,experience ,,previous ,,to ,,being ,,sent ,,as ,a ,,missionary ,,to ,,the ,,society ,,islands--,,remarkable ,,prediction ,,by ,,presidents ,,brigham ,,young ,,and ,,willard ,,richards--,,perilous ,,journey ,,to ,,california--,,tragic ,,fate ,,of ,,most ,,of ,,the ,,company--,,arrival ,,in ,,san ,,francisco--,,landing ,,in ,,tahiti--,,opposition ,,from ,,priests ,,and ,,ministers--,,governor ,,of ,,french ,,protectorate ,,arrayed ,,against ,,him--,,elders ,,scatter ,,out--,,lewd ,,women1 ,,instigated ,,by ,,ministers1 ,,try ,,to ,,entrap ,,him--,,his ,,first ,,convert--,,recognized ,,by ,a ,,native ,,who ,,had ,,seen ,,him ,,in ,a ,,dream4 ,the late ,elder ,james ,s4 ,brown1 who for many years was a resident of the #agth ,ward of this city1 7and who died in #aijb7 had a most interesting and eventful life1 and a few incidents therefrom1 in which a special providence was manifest1 are here given1 the facts being mainly culled from his autobiography published under the title of ,life of a ,pioneer4 ,elder ,brown was a member of the famous ,mormon ,battalion1 and on being mustered out of service in ,california in ,july1 #ahdg1 he journeyed to ,sutter's ,fort on the ,sacramento river1 and became one of the original discoverers of gold in ,california4 ,after working in ,california for an outfit1 he with others made a hazardous journey eastward in search of their friends the ,pioneers1 who1 under the leadership of ,brigham ,young1 had located1 as they understood1 somewhere in the rocky mountains1 but just where they were uncertain4 ,he arrived in ,salt ,lake valley on the #bhth of ,september1 #ahdh1 and found the pioneers living in a fort on what is now ,pioneer ,square4 ,there he was warmly welcomed by relatives and friends and settled down to help develop the country4 ,in the summer of #ahdi he witnessed the threatened destruction of the whole of the crops being raised in the valley by the onslaught of crickets1 and the miraculous saving of the crops by swarms of seagulls coming from the west and devouring the crickets4 ,then he was called to go upon a mission to the ,society ,islands4 ,president ,brigham ,young said to him ,i promise you in the name of the ,lord1 ,god of ,israel that if you go you will be blessed1 and do good1 and be an honor to yourself and to the ,church and ,kingdom of ,god4 ,although men will seek your life1 you shall be spared and return to the bosom of the ,church in safety4 ,president ,willard ,richards also said to him ,brother ,james1 when you are upon yonder distant islands1 called to preside over a branch of the ,church of ,jesus ,christ of ,latter-day ,saints1 men will seek your life1 and to all human appearance there will be no possible escape2 then look unto ,god1 and ,his angels shall drawn near unto you1 and you shall be delivered to return home unto this people4 ,in company with ,elder ,addison ,pratt1 who had previously filled a mission to the ,society ,islands1 he set out1 first proceeding to ,california by the southern route4 ,they had occasion to feel that they were providentially preserved on the journey1 as1 through a disagreement as to the road they should travel1 the majority of the company 7including about #ejj emigrants bound for ,california from somewhere in the east7 and who persisted in going contrary to the advice of ,apostle ,charles ,c4 ,rich1 got lost and nearly all of them perished from thirst and starvation in ,death ,valley4 ,the missionaries were content to follow the advice of ,apostle ,rich1 and1 after a somewhat perilous journey arrived safely in ,san ,francisco4 ,there they secured passage on the brig ,frederick and sailed away to the southwest for ,tahiti ,april #bj1 #ahej4 ,they landed at ,papeete1 the capital of ,tahiti1 the largest island of the ,society group1 ,may #bd1 #ahej1 where they were met and welcomed by a few natives whom ,addison ,pratt had converted while on a previous mission4 ,they soon learned that they would have to meet the combined opposition of ,protestant ministers and ,catholic priests1 who were determined1 if possible1 to prevent them from becoming established there4 ,these opponents had great influence with the representatives of the ,french government that maintained a protectorate over the greater part of the ,society ,islands4 ,they called upon the governor of the ,french protectorate and tried to obtain permission to visit ,tubuai1 a distant island1 to which place they had a chance of obtaining free passage1 but were refused permission1 as the governor expressed fear of the effect of their preaching4 ,he required that they furnish him a detailed statement of the principles they taught and the methods and policy they pursued in their missionary work1 all of which1 however1 failed to satisfy the governor that he could safely trust them4 ,the governor then prepared a list of questions for the ,elders to answer and pledges for them to subscribe to1 all of which they complied with1 but all to no avail1 for the governor had evidently determined not to allow them to do any proselyting4 ,elder ,brown made the acquaintance of many ministers and missionaries of other creeds1 some of whom professed to have a feeling of friendship for him and his work1 but who secretly exerted all their powers and influence to oppose him and instigate the government to curtail his liberties and prevent the spread of the ,gospel4 ,upon one occasion he was visited by two very pretty young native women who were attractively dressed and highly perfumed1 and who expressed a desire to investigate ,mormonism4 ,he received them cordially and offered to afford them any information he could1 but was blessed with the spirit of discernment and impressed with the fact that they were not sincere in their profession1 but had1 in fact1 come for the purpose of seducing him4 ,he surprised them by telling them of his suspicion as to the purpose of their visit1 and that certain rival ministers had induced them to come to him1 suggesting to them that ,elder ,brown was hypocritical in his profession of religion1 and in reality a licentious man who would readily succumb to the cunning wiles of lewd women and1 by being caught in the trap devised by them1 have his reputation blasted and his missionary work effectually stopped by the exposure that would follow4 ,the women acknowledged that he had correctly discerned and described the cause and purpose of their visit and the identity of its instigators1 and on being warned to repent and assured that ,mormon missionaries were not such characters as they had been led to suppose1 the women abandoned the scheme to which they had lent themselves1 and left him4 ,the first baptism in which ,elder ,brown officiated on the islands was that of a highly educated and influential young native woman who had become convinced of the truth of the principles he taught and applied to him to baptize her4 ,she was so ill that she had to be carried into the water1 but when she was baptized she was immediately healed and walked out of the water without help4 ,the ministers raised a great outcry about his endangering her life by immersing her1 and soon had the police searching for him for the purpose of placing him under arrest4 ,the officers failed to find him1 although he made no effort to evade them1 and the excitement over the baptism of the young woman gradually subsided4 ,failing to get the consent of the governor or other officials for them to engage in missionary labor1 and tiring of the restraint of remaining in comparative idleness in the region of ,papeete1 the ,elders decided to scatter out and do missionary work as they might find opportunity4 ,while ,elder ,brown was on his way to ,tubuai1 where he was appointed to preside1 the boat upon which he was making the voyage had to put into the harbor of the island of ,laivavai to seek refuge from a storm4 ,he mentions that the island was only four miles in length and two in width1 and had a population of three hundred and eighty-three people4 ,he described them as having the wildest and fiercest look of any that he had ever met4 ,however1 he had no cause to complain of their treatment at the time4 ,his next stop was on the island of ,tubuai1 which is only twelve or fifteen miles in length1 and had a population of four hundred4 ,it was upon this island that the gospel was first introduced4 ,that was in ,july1 #ahdd1 the missionaries being ,addison ,pratt1 ,noah ,rogers and ,b4 ,f4 ,grouard1 who were sent on a mission from ,nauvoo by the ,prophet ,joseph ,smith1 in #ahdc4 ,knowlton ,f4 ,hanks was also one of the party called to fill this mission1 but he died during the voyage to his field of labor4 ,while attempting to effect a landing1 the boat had the narrowest possible escape from being wrecked upon a coral reef4 ,as it was1 the passengers were spilled into the raging billows among crags and rocks1 but were fortunate in escaping serious injury4 ,after laboring for awhile on the island of ,tubuai1 he proceeded to ,anaa1 in the ,tuamotu group4 ,a somewhat unusual incident occured when ,elder ,brown and a number of other passengers were about to land at ,tuuhora on the island of ,auaa4 ,as they neared the shore a native came bounding through the water until he reached the stern of the boat where ,elder ,brown was seated4 ,then he reached out his hand which had in it five pearls wrapped in a small rag1 saying at the same time3 ,here1 ,i have seen you before4 ,you have come to be our president1 for you have been shown to me in a dream4 ,welcome1 welcome to our land6 ,he then turned his broad1 muscular back towards ,elder ,brown and invited the missionary to mount and be carried ashore4 ,the ,elder gladly did so1 and notwithstanding he was an unusually large man1 he was carried with ease to the shore1 where he was joyfully greeted by a goodly number of church members who soon prepared a feast of welcome for him4 ,,chapter ,,ii4 ,,catholic ,,priests ,,jealous ,,of ,,his ,,success--,,arrested ,,on ,a ,,trumped-,,up ,,charge--,,tried ,,before ,,governor',s ,,aid-,,de-,,camp--,,frightful ,,scene ,,among ,a ,,school ,,of ,,whales--,,farce ,,of ,a ,,trial ,,before ,,the ,,governor ,,of ,,the ,,protectorate--,,inspired ,,to ,,plead ,,his ,,own ,,cause--,,impression ,,made ,,upon ,,the ,,governor--,,american ,,consul',s ,,friendly ,,act--,,banished ,,from ,,tahiti--,,befriended ,,by ,a ,,queen4 ,the natives were eager for the ,gospel1 and he lost no time in commencing the work of proselyting among them4 ,he also engaged in conducting day schools among the natives with good effect1 the natives being anxious to attend and quick to learn4 ,the ,catholic priests of the region1 however1 who were making almost frantic efforts to proselyte as well as to establish schools in imitation of those of ,elder ,brown1 were so jealous of his success and so chagrined at their own failure1 that they set about devising schemes to discredit ,elder ,brown and gain an advantage over him4 ,they even went to the extreme of taking forcible possession of a meeting house built and exclusively owned by the ,latter-day ,saints1 and trying to monopolize the use of it4 ,they presumed upon their influence with the officers of the ,french protectorate to sustain them in this arbitrary and high-handed conduct1 and continued it even in the face of a decision against them1 when the officers could find no warrant even in the rank anti-,mormon prejudice then prevailing for favoring the priests1 much as they desired to do so4 ,while at ,putuhara1 on the island of ,anaa1 ,elder ,brown was arrested on a trumped-up charge and haled before the governor's aid-de camp1 who had arrived on the ,french war frigate ,durance4 ,it was soon evident that the ,catholic priests had conspired to entrap him for the purpose of breaking down his influence with the natives and closing his schools4 ,when the charges1 which were both frivolous and absurd1 were read to him he plead not guilty and asked the privilege of being tried in the vicinity1 where he felt sure he could soon establish his innocence4 ,this privilege was refused on the plea that his offense was too great and he was too dangerous to be tried before any less personage than the governor4 ,he would therefore have to go to ,tahiti and appear before the governor4 ,after being compelled to witness the most shameless and revolting immorality on the part of the guard who had him in charge he was thrust into a filthy and foul smelling old oil boat and thus conveyed to the war frigate1 which was lying off shore1 there being no harbor or anchorage at that island4 ,while the boat was proceeding to the frigate it ran into a school of whales that numbered hundreds if not thousands4 ,the native oarsmen propelling the boat were almost paralyzed with fear1 and withdrew their oars and scarcely dared to breath while the whales were passing4 ,elder ,brown in relating the circumstance admitted that although he had been in a great many dangerous places he had never felt the hair on his head so much inclined to stand on end before as while witnessing the passing of those huge sea monsters1 so close as to be touched with the hand1 and having the power if they had chosen to exert it1 to smash the boat and send its passengers into eternity by a mere whisk of the tail4 ,the voyage ended at the port of ,papeete1 ,november #c1 #ahea1 and the prisoner was soon transferred from the war frigate to a cobblestone dungeon in the town4 ,from there he was taken before the governor and arraigned on the charges preferred against him4 ,a native ,catholic was first introduced as a witness4 ,he had evidently been coached in regard to what he should say1 but not sufficiently so to have it clear in his mind1 or else he had scruples against perjuring himself1 for he hesitated and seemed confused4 ,the governor evidently thought his confusion due to the prisoner looking at him1 for he ordered ,elder ,brown not to look at the witness1 and told him that his countenance was so fierce and vivid as to baffle the most substantial witness4 ,the next person used against him as a witness was a man who had been brought to ,papeete as a prisoner1 but never arraigned4 ,he evidently thought that his own immunity from prosecution depended upon his furnishing damaging evidence against ,elder ,brown1 and he seemed more than willing to testify to anything4 ,not liking the way the trial was proceeding1 if it was a trial1 as he was being given no opportunity to defend himself1 ,elder ,brown arose and claimed his rights as an ,american citizen1 making as strong a plea as he could in his own behalf1 and quoting international law and treaties that came to his mind spontaneously upon the occasion1 without his ever having read or heard the same quoted before4 ,the governor and others present seemed to be profoundly impressed by what he said1 the result being that with much embarrassment the hearing was closed and he was immediately marched back to his filthy cell4 ,about this time the ,american consul1 ,w4 ,h4 ,kelly1 having heard of the proceedings1 called upon the governor in the interest of ,elder ,brown1 as an ,american citizen4 ,the governor informed him that the prisoner was a very dangerous as well as a very learned man1 thoroughly familiar with international laws and treaties1 which he was able to quote from memory1 and that he was undoubtedly a military man of no mean ability4 ,inquiring what he could do for the relief of the prisoner1 he was told that he could put up a #ej1jjj franc bond for the good conduct of the ,elder during the remainder of his stay under the jurisdiction of the ,french protectorate1 in which case he might regain his liberty1 but that he must leave the protectorate by the first out-going vessel1 no more to return on pain of perpetual imprisonment4 ,the consul accordingly put up the bond and ,elder ,brown was released and turned over to him4 ,the consul advised that he confer with his friends and see what could be done about complying with the terms of the governor's decree4 ,the missionaries were accordingly called together and discussed the decree of banishment1 with the result that they decided that ,elder ,brown had better sail on the little schooner ,ravai1 owned by the ,saints and commanded by ,b4 ,f4 ,grouard4 ,it was bound for a cruise among the ,tuamotu group of islands1 and to make a final landing at ,laivavai1 four hundred miles south-east of ,tahiti1 and outside of the protectorate4 ,the vessel was accordingly got ready and he sailed on board of it ,november #ag1 #ahea4 ,as the boat was leaving the ,tahitian harbor it encountered severe headwinds and had to beat its way against wind and wave until it became somewhat disabled4 ,provisions also ran short1 and it became necessary to change the course of the vessel and head it towards ,tubuai4 ,when within eighty miles of that island1 the provisions became utterly exhausted and a dead calm set in4 ,after severe suffering1 ,tubuai was reached on the #bith of ,november4 ,when ,pitamai ,vehene1 the queen1 heard that ,elder ,brown had been banished1 she went out to the vessel in her own canoe and invited him to go ashore with her and partake of her hospitality4 ,she said this is my island1 and the ,french have no right here4 ,i will be responsible for all the trouble that may arise4 ,he accepted the invitation1 was entertained at the queen's mansion for a number of days1 and then continued his voyage to ,laivavai1 where he relieved ,elder ,pratt1 who was then presiding there4 ,,chapter ,,iii4 ,,land ,,among ,,cannibals--,,denounced ,,as ,,the ,,american ,,plant--,,his ,,destruction ,,demanded--,,sentenced ,,to ,,be ,,roasted ,,and ,,eaten--,,fire ,,prepared--,,his ,,defiance ,,of ,,the ,,rabid ,,host--,,effect ,,upon ,,the ,,wild ,,horde ,,who ,,were ,,eager ,,to ,,roast ,,and ,,devour ,,him--,,fierce ,,fight ,,among ,,his ,,opponents4 ,an intense anti-,mormon feeling had developed on that island since his last previous visit1 and he had scarcely landed when his life was threatened by a leader of the anti-,mormon faction named ,tabate4 ,these people had formerly been cannibals1 and now when their passions were aroused1 as they frequently were on religious and other questions1 their state bordered very nearly on their original degraded level if it didn't quite reach it4 ,they not only gloried in their former practices1 but they dwelt with unction upon the hope of returning thereto4 ,they practiced grimmaces and distortions and incantations1 gave free rein to their wild passions and in anticipation reverted again to their old lives of crime and cannibalism4 ,unfortunately there were persons unscrupulous enough to play upon the prejudices of the natives in this time of excitement to gratify their own malicious desires and gain a mean advantage for their own pet faction4 ,two young protestant ministers engaged in making inflammatory speeches against the ,mormons and especially against ,elder ,brown1 whose influence among the natives they greatly feared and saw no prospect of coping with4 ,they alluded to him as that ,american plant which they predicted would soon grow to such proportions as to overshadow the land and stifle all other creeds or ministers4 ,they demanded that the natives give this ,american plant no further tolerance1 but drive him from their midst4 ,about the #eth of ,may1 #aheb1 the whole people were called to assemble at the village of ,tatake and prepare a feast1 and at the same time to decide what to do with the ,mormon minister and his disciples4 ,the young braves came together armed with muskets1 and apparently bent upon extreme measures4 ,the people brought together an immense quantity and great variety of edibles1 including roast pigs1 fish1 poultry and fruits of all kinds known in the region4 ,the food was divided up according to families and the number in families1 and the portion of ten men was set before ,elder ,brown with the injunction to eat and get fat for the roast4 ,much jesting was indulged in during the banquet1 and many allusions made to the feast of roast missionary which was to follow1 as if it were a good joke1 but at the conclusion of the banquet all became silent as if they had eaten to satiety and required a rest4 ,but to the friends of ,elder ,brown this silence was ominous4 ,they could not believe that the dire plot against the missionary had been abandoned or forgotten4 ,the silence1 they feared1 was but the precursor of a more dreadful and revolting orgie than any they had witnessed4 ,about #a p4 m4 the excitement was renewed4 ,two great ruffians armed with clubs entered ,elder ,brown's apartment and announced that they had been sent to summon him before the council4 ,if he refused they said they were under orders to forcibly drag him there4 ,he immediately arose to go with them1 and as he did so the promise of ,brigham ,young and also that of ,president ,willard ,richards1 made to him when he was called to go upon his mission1 came to his mind1 with the assurance that the time had arrived for their fulfillment4 ,as predicted1 his life was now being sought1 but his enemies would not succeed1 for his life would be spared to return in safety to his mountain home and friends4 ,he had no feeling of doubt or depression1 but on the contrary he was calmly confident and cheerful4 ,he walked out to the beach where the people had assembled1 and the few faithful members of the ,church upon the island followed close behind him4 ,as they passed the heap of burning timber which had such a significance1 they faced a formidable row of about fifteen young athletes with close cropped hair and bodies naked except for a cloth around their loins1 and oiled so that they shone with a savage fierceness in the firelight1 standing with folded arms as if ready for the word to offer a victim to the flames4 ,as the missionary and his friends approached the demon-like ,tabate stepped forward and commanded that all the ,britons stand on the right hand with the sheep1 and the ',mormons' stand on the left where the goats are4 ,among the followers of ,elder ,brown was a brave young native named ,rivae and his wife who had an eight-months'-old babe in her arms4 ,with sublime courage this devoted young husband stepped forward and said ,if you are going to burn this man1 pointing to ,elder ,brown1 you burn me first6 ,his wife immediately followed and1 holding her babe at arms' length shouted ,i am a ',mormon' and this baby will be a ',mormon' if he lives1 so you will have to burn all of us to put a stop to ',mormonism4' ,rivae and his wife were ordered to stand aside1 and ,elder ,brown was ordered to take a position in a space between the two parties4 ,then ,tabate1 the spokesman or judge taunted him with being the cause of all the trouble1 and1 pointing to the heap of burning embers1 declared the decision to be that he must there be roasted and eaten4 ,yielding to a sudden feeling that came over him at that moment1 ,elder ,brown stood erect before them1 and1 with arms raised high in the air1 shouted ,in the name of ,israel's ,god ,i defy the host of you2 for ,i serve the ,god who delivered ,daniel from the den of lions and the three ,hebrew children from the fiery furnace6 ,the change that immediately came over the scene was as if caused by magic4 ,a spirit of division rested upon the judge who had passed the sentence1 his councilors and the executioners1 and they were soon engaged in a deadly grapple4 ,this seemed to be the signal for the whole assembly to enter into the fiercest kind of a fight4 ,they used clubs and stones and any other kind of a weapon they could get hold of2 also pulled hair1 bit and scratched and gouged in the most desperate struggle1 inflicting all the damage they could upon one another until they were compelled to cease from sheer exhaustion at the close of the day4 ,in this final conflict some of the ,church members seemed impelled to take a hand4 ,they fought with savage ferocity until the time came when1 as if by common consent1 they all ceased to fight and demurely slunk away to their homes with many sore heads and aching bodies1 to think over1 but perhaps without being able to recall1 their reason for engaging in the deadly struggle4 ,the rest may soon be told4 ,elder ,brown continued to live upon the small island of ,laivavai1 for he had no opportunity to get away1 but he was treated with consideration1 and apparently regarded with superstitious awe4 ,those who had contemplated roasting and eating him must have been careful to shun him thereafter1 for he never knowingly met any of them4 ,upon one occasion he recognized one of them at a distance but noticed that he almost immediately commenced running from him1 as if in fear4 ,in a spirit of fun ,elder ,brown pursued him and succeeded in overtaking him after a long chase4 ,on questioning the man as to his reason for running away from him1 he was told that he was feared because he seemed to be divinely assisted2 that when he defied the populace as he was about to be sacrificed there appeared to be a pillar of light extending from the heavens down to his head1 and it was regarded as a sign of divine favor1 and those who saw it feared to touch him4 ,they were not the only ones who gave the ,lord the credit for coming to his relief4 ,elder ,brown did so himself4 ,he acknowledged that it was only through the mercy and power of the ,lord that he was delivered from that howling mob who had set their hearts upon subjecting him to a most horrible death and were then intent upon devouring his flesh4 ,we can imagine how easy it was for the ,lord to create the impression that ,he did upon the hearts of those ignorant depraved people4 ,james ,s4 ,brown was a magnificent specimen of physical manhood4 ,he was tall and well proportioned1 with a fearless manner about him1 betokening the possession of unusual courage4 ,he had a sonorous voice and a penetrating look that was well calculated to make cowards quail4 ,when he stood forth in the majesty of his strength and in the firm belief that the ,lord was going to protect him1 even as ,his prophets had declared1 and defied the superstitious horde that sought his life1 it seems the most natural thing in the world that they should be stricken dumb with astonishment and terror4 ,it is not detracting any from the credit due the ,lord to explain that ,his purpose might have been and probably was accomplished in a perfectly natural way4 ,it was long before remarked by the ,protestant ministers when they sought to have his liberties curtailed because he had baptized an invalid and she had been healed of her ailment1 that he had such a fierce countenance and expressive voice as to excite a person suffering the most excruciating pain until he would not realize that he had any suffering at all4 ,the governor of the ,french protectorate had also complained of his so terrifying a witness by simply looking at him as to disqualify him for service4 ,he therefore ordered that ,elder ,brown cease to look at the witness1 saying his countenance was so fierce and vivid as to baffle the most substantial witness4 ,then too1 he had the reputation of being a man of nerve and resource--a man who did things4 ,he had in many instances extracted teeth with no better instrument than a bullet mold or a hammer and chisel1 or rusty nail that could be used as a punch4 ,he had performed surgical operations successfully when he had found people suffering from carbuncles or abscesses by use only of a sharp pocket knife4 ,he had acquired the native language and other dialects with wonderful facility and spoke several dialects fluently2 in fact1 he was almost a natural linguist4 ,all these and other things as well as his appearance caused him to be regarded as a remarkable man4 ,his unconcern too as to the identity of the people who tried to sacrifice him was probably also noticed4 ,it was sufficient for him to know that he was no longer molested4 ,to him the incident was closed4 ,he probably never thought of it afterwards except in a casual way4 ,when he returned home after an absence of three and two-thirds years and had occasion to mention his narrow escape from being burned and devoured in connection with his various other experiences1 he found it was wholly lacking in corroboration2 he could not refer to anyone who had witnessed it or knew of the facts4 ,and so it continued for nearly if not quite forty years1 when he again found himself upon a mission in the ,society ,islands4 ,he was a greatly changed man then1 enfeebled by age and sickness1 and under the necessity of walking with crutches as a result of his having lost a limb through being accidentally shot4 ,he found only few people then who remembered his former labors upon the islands and fewer still who recognized him4 ,he casually mentions in his autobiography that on visiting the island of ,laivavai in company with ,elder ,wm4 ,a4 ,seegmiller we met a man--the fourth on the island--who was on the island of ,laivavai when the natives had built a fire to burn me1 and when ,i was delivered by the power of ,god4 ,they claimed to have been present when ,i was sentenced1 but denied taking any part in the proceedings4 ,elder ,seegmiller1 who is now a ,bishop in ,richfield1 ,utah1 remembers meeting those men as mentioned4 ,he also had the place pointed out to him where the sacrifice so nearly occurred1 and heard the circumstance incidentally alluded to many times in connection with the folk lore of the island1 or as a legend of the days of heathendom4 ,all that he heard was substantially in accord with the narrative as here given4 ,,parkin ,,reminiscense ,,chapter ,i4 ,,promise ,,to ,,pay ,,money ,,with ,,only ,,faith ,,to ,,back ,,it--,,how ,,the ,,money ,,was ,,provided--,,lesson ,,his ,,wife ,,drew ,,from ,,it4 ,brother ,wm4 ,j4 ,parkin1 of ,south ,bountiful1 tells this story of how the ,lord can and will open up the way for those who have faith to fulfill their promises and accomplish their righteous desires3 ,he arrived in ,utah in the year #ahfc1 fresh from ,england1 and very poor4 ,he had not succeeded in accumulating much when1 in the following year1 he ventured to get married4 ,while attending conference in ,salt ,lake ,city the following spring he heard ,president ,brigham ,young announce to the assembly that he wanted a collection taken up in the several wards for the immigration of the poor1 and wished every man to subscribe to the extent of his ability4 ,the following ,sunday he attended meeting in ,bountiful and heard ,bishop ,stoker repeat the call4 ,brother ,parkin is a man of generous impulses1 and felt like doing his full duty in so worthy a cause1 but was absolutely without funds1 and didn't know where or how he would be able to obtain any1 but he was the first man to arise and say what he would do4 ,he said1 ,bishop1 you may put me down for #b4ej4 ,the money was to be paid within two weeks4 ,when he returned home from meeting his wife1 who had not been at the meeting1 met him at the gate with tears in her eyes4 ,she had already heard from a neighbor of what her husband had promised to do1 and knew too that he had no money4 ,her heart was in the work of the ,lord1 and she would have been more than willing to help migrate the poor if she had been able so to do1 but her high sense of honor would not brook the making of a promise she could not fulfill4 ,she greeted him reproachfully with the exclamation3 ,what have you done8 ,he had no guilty feeling1 and asked her what she meant4 ,you have promised to give two-and-a-half dollars1 and haven't a cent1 nor any way of getting any4 ,do you know that ,i had to sit up and wash and iron a shirt for you after you went to bed last night1 so that you might have a decent shirt to wear to-day8 ,well1 ,i know that we are very poor1 he replied1 but ,i believe the ,lord will provide a way for me to fulfill the promise4 ,perhaps he will make the chickens lay more eggs1 or the cow give more milk1 so you will have butter to sell4 ,how can you expect that1 said she1 when we only have three hens and a rooster1 and the cow is almost dry4 ,peace was patched up between the couple by his assurance that what he had done in the matter of making that promise was done from a strict sense of duty1 and because he had faith that the ,lord would somehow enable him to fulfill it4 ,she knew him too well to doubt his good intentions1 and was too good a woman to further reproach him therefor1 though she did not share his faith about his being able to keep his promise4 ,time passed without his securing any money until the day before he was to pay it4 ,on the morning of that day when he was out in the yard attending to his chores he noticed a fairly well-defined path1 that he had not observed before1 leading from his chicken coop into a patch of brush that grew near4 ,following the path out into the brush1 he there found a big nest full of eggs4 ,carrying them into the house1 he met his wife at the door1 who was just coming out to exhibit to him a good-sized chunk of butter which she had just taken out of the churn--ever so much more than she had been in the habit of getting4 ,their surprise was mutual when he counted out before her eyes thirty clean1 fresh-looking eggs--all the more surprising because they had both previously thought they were getting all the eggs their hens produced4 ,while they were still beaming with satisfaction over their good fortune1 a knock was heard at the door1 and upon opening it a stranger1 an overland immigrant1 was met1 who inquired if they had any butter and eggs to sell4 ,the eggs just brought in were pointed out with the remark that he might have them1 and the good wife also produced the lump of freshly-made butter4 ,the stranger said he would be glad to buy both1 and if they could spare him some buttermilk also he would regard that as a favor4 ,he was assured that they would be glad to do so1 and that he could have them at his own price4 ,he produced from his wallet a diminutive coin1 such as they had never seen before1 and offered it to them1 and ,brother ,parkin inquired1 ,what is that8 ,that is a two-and-a-half dollar gold piece1 the stranger replied4 ,well1 said ,brother ,parkin1 ,i have no change and that is entirely too much4 ,have you no small change8 ,the stranger told him to keep it4 ,he was welcome to it4 ,that he was glad to get the butter1 eggs and buttermilk at any price1 as he had applied in vain at so many houses for them that he had begun to despair about being able to get any4 ,the stranger carried away his small purchase1 rejoicing1 and ,brother and ,sister ,parkin were profuse in their thanks to him1 and very grateful to the ,lord1 for having inspired him to supply them with the means of fulfilling the promise made to the ,bishop4 ,sister ,parkin was so impressed with the fact that the money had come as a special providence from the ,lord1 and so thankful that her husband's honor could now be saved that she actually shed tears of joy1 and assured him that she would never more reproach him for being too rash in trying to do his duty as a ,latter-day ,saint1 and hoped never again to be lacking in faith that the ,lord will provide4 ,the day following1 being ,sunday1 he attended meeting as usual1 and presented the gold piece to the ,bishop with the remark that it was his donation to help immigrate the poor4 ,the ,bishop accepted it with a ,god bless you1 ,brother ,parkin2 yours is the first money paid of all that was promised4 ,,chapter ,,ii4 ,,ashamed ,,to ,,pay ,,tithing--,,loss ,,of ,,crop--,,lesson ,,he ,,learned ,,by ,,it--,,potatoes ,,purchased ,,to ,,pay ,,delinquent ,,tithing--,,no ,,loss ,,of ,,potato ,,crop ,,since4 ,brother ,parkin had not been married more than two or three years when a season of partial drouth occurred1 and his potatoes1 which he had counted upon as being his profitable crop1 was a partial failure4 ,the tubers when dug were very small1 and very few in a hill4 ,when his wife saw the small pile that represented the total crop she remarked3 ,well1 they look hardly fit to eat1 but we can manage to get along with them4 ,now go and pay your tithing on them1 and perhaps the ,lord will furnish a better crop next year4 ,her husband replied that he would be ashamed to take such potatoes in for tithing2 he would rather wait until he raised some decent looking potatoes and pay tithing on two years' crop at once4 ,she didn't approve of that decision1 and urged him to take a tenth of the present year's crop for tithing just the same as if they had been as good as ever before produced1 as the ,lord knew the kind of potatoes he had raised as well as he did1 and would be satisfied with a tenth of the potatoes1 such as they were4 ,on general principles he agreed with her1 but he felt a sense of pride about taking a good article for tithing1 and so stuck to his original decision to wait until he raised some good potatoes and then pay enough to cover the tithing on this year's crop as well4 ,the following year he planted a good sized patch of potatoes and took the best of care of the field in the hope that the crop would be a record-breaker1 which meant something like a thousand bushels to the acre4 ,the tops looked good enough to warrant the expectation1 but to his great surprise and mortification1 they proved to be a complete failure1 which was all the more remarkable1 for the reason that the general yield that year was not much if any below normal4 ,his wife had never been entirely reconciled to his failure to pay his tithing on the previous year's crop1 and readily connected that in her mind with their present lack of a crop1 and so expressed her feelings without hesitation4 ,that is what you get for your failure to pay your tithing6 ,now go and buy three bushels of the best potatoes you can get1 and turn them in for tithing1 and ask the ,lord to forgive you for not paying them last year1 and ,i don't believe you will ever have another failure4 ,he did not dispute the wisdom of her counsel1 but promptly acted upon it1 and felt satisfaction in so doing4 ,the good wife has long since gone to her rest1 but she lived long enough to see many good crops of potatoes produced upon that same land and not one failure1 nor has there ever been a failure since her death4 ,that proved a lesson to ,brother ,parkin that he has never forgotten4 ,he has felt ever since that the ,lord was entitled to a tenth of whatever crop he produced1 whether good1 bad or indifferent1 and believes now that the measure of prosperity that he has since enjoyed has been largely if not wholly due to his willingness and faithfulness in the matter of paying his tithing4 ,in other words1 he feels that it pays to be on good terms with the ,lord4 ,,chapter ,,iii4 ,,farming ,,on ,,shares--,a ,,new ,,vocation--,,future ,,home ,,shown ,,in ,,vision--,,home ,,recognized ,,when ,,first ,,seen ,,in ,,utah--,,reputation ,,gained ,,as ,a ,,faithful ,,and ,,thorough ,,worker--,,providential ,,fulfilment ,,of ,,vision--,,home ,,viewed ,,as ,a ,,sacred ,,heritage4 ,for years after ,brother ,parkin arrived in ,utah he worked land on shares1 not being able to buy any4 ,he had been a coal miner in ,england1 his native land1 and had no experience in any other line4 ,here1 however1 there was no demand for coal miners2 in fact1 the people of ,utah all burned wood at that time1 no coal mines being then developed4 ,he readily adapted himself to the ways of the country1 and made up by hard work for what he lacked in skill in whatever employment he was able to secure4 ,he soon gained a reputation as a profitable person to employ1 and was given the preference by a number of his well-to-do neighbors when they required help1 and when he could work for others without neglecting the small farm which he was cultivating on shares4 ,cradling grain 7the method then in vogue of cutting it before mechanical reapers were introduced7 was at first one of the most difficult things he ever tried to do4 ,until he acquired the knack of it1 it was an awful tax upon his strength4 ,he was determined to learn1 however1 having an idea that what others could do in the line of work he could if he only persevered4 ,in course of time he acquired sufficient skill at cradling that quite a few of his neighbors who could afford to hire others to cut their grain instead of doing it themselves1 relied upon him doing it for them1 and paid him two bushels per acre therefor4 ,he had not been married long when1 one day1 as he and his wife were journeying to ,salt ,lake ,city by ox team to make a few necessary purchases she pointed out a certain corner field to him with the remark1 that is our farm6 ,oh1 no1 he replied1 that is ,monroe ,perkins' field4 ,well1 she then responded1 if it isn't ours now1 it will be some day2 ,i saw that place in a vision a year before ,i left ,england1 and long before ,i ever thought of marrying you1 and was assured that it would sometime be my home4 ,the incident passed without further comment at the time1 the possibility of their being able to buy it if they could afford the price being too remote and uncertain to entertain the thought of1 for ,monroe ,perkins was not disposed to sell land1 and didn't have to1 for he could afford to keep it4 ,monroe ,perkins' father was a very old man--a ,southerner1 who with his two sons and numerous grandchildren were early settlers in ,south ,bountiful1 and were the original locators of rather extensive and choice farms4 ,shortly before ,father ,perkins died1 ,brother ,parkin1 who was somewhat of a favorite with the old gentleman1 induced him to sell him five acres of his large farm for the amount of his savings up to that period--#bjj4jj1 and after the deal had been completed the old gentleman remarked1 sympathetically1 that five acres was a pretty small and narrow piece of land for a man to try to make a living on1 and if his friend wanted to part with a new cook stove which he had just purchased1 he would exchange therefor another five acres1 and ,brother ,parkin would thus have a square ten-acre field4 ,brother ,parkin didn't hesitate a second about accepting the offer1 and considered himself specially blest in being able to obtain it4 ,his wife also was content to return to the use of the skillet1 in which she had done her baking ever since she was married1 and for the purchase of which ,brother ,parkin had dug a well #fh feet deep1 and walled it up with rock4 ,he was not only glad to have a ten-acre farm that he could call his own1 but was determined to make it second to no ten-acre farm in the country in point of productivity4 ,some years later1 after both ,father ,perkins and his son ,monroe had died1 the remaining members of that branch of the ,perkins family decided to remove to ,arizona1 and sold their real estate to ,walker ,brothers1 wealthy merchants of ,salt ,lake ,city1 who wanted the property for a country home4 ,brother ,parkin's little farm looked so attractive to the eldest of the ,walker ,brothers that he was determined to possess it at any price4 ,day after day he visited the place and admired it1 appearing to be fairly enchanted with a fine field of timothy to which part of the small farm was devoted4 ,the owner1 however1 was proof against all the tempting offers made him1 declaring that ,walker ,brothers didn't have enough money to buy his ten acres4 ,finally ,s4 ,sharp ,walker paid another visit1 and approached him on a different tack3 ,on what terms will you swap your ten acres for half of that #ba acre field on the other side of the street1 pointing to the ,monroe ,perkins corner which ,sister ,parkin had so long before seen in vision1 and concerning which she received the heavenly assurance that it would be her future home4 ,the proposition was not rejected as the previous ones had been4 ,on the contrary1 the owner promised to consider it1 and let him know1 if he called on the following day1 what he would do4 ,that evening ,brother ,parkin called upon his aged father for advice1 telling him of the proposition to swap farms4 ,the old gentleman could hardly credit it1 the old ,monroe ,perkins farm being in his estimation so much more desirable1 though not under such a good state of cultivation4 ,in the father's opinion there was no better land in ,davis ,county1 and he doubted whether there was any better in the world1 than the ,monroe ,perkins farm1 but it had been somewhat neglected1 and showed the effects of it4 ,it had this advantage also1 which appealed to ,father ,parkin3 ,it was patented land and if he secured it1 he could get a warranty deed for it1 while his son only held a quit claim deed from ,reuben ,perkins1 the original locator to the ten acres he had1 it having been discovered when the ,u4 ,s4 survey was made that it was a part of a school section1 and full legal title thereto could not be obtained until the time arrived for the school lands to be sold1 when the possessor of the land1 as a squatter1 would have the first right to purchase it4 ,the interview ended with this fatherly advice3 ,well1 my son1 if you can secure the ,monroe ,perkins corner on any reasonable terms1 don't fail to do it2 but don't involve yourself by paying too much to boot1 for it may be difficult for you to secure money to pay off the loan after you have borrowed it4 ,the following day ,mr4 ,walker called again as usual for the decision1 and was duly impressed by ,brother ,parkin with the clean and highly productive condition of his small homestead1 and with the weedy and neglected condition of the opposite corner1 all of which ,mr4 ,walker admitted was correct4 ,then ,brother ,parkin said1 all things considered1 he was willing to make the exchange proposed if he could receive #ejj4jj to boot4 ,it was apparent that ,mr4 ,walker was tempted4 ,after some banter1 to secure more favorable terms1 a compromise was effected by his paying #dej4jj as boot between the two pieces of land4 ,the land is still in ,brother ,parkin's possession4 ,he feels that there was something providential about the way he acquired it1 and that his wife1 who has long since passed to her reward1 was inspired of the ,lord when she foresaw it as the future home of the family4 ,under the circumstances it is not strange that he should regard it as a sacred heritage1 and refuse all offers that real estate agents make for its purchase4 ,,chapter ,,iv4 ,,ambitious ,,to ,,work ,,in ,a ,,coal ,,mine--,,day ,,spent ,,in ,,mine ,,as ,a ,,spectator--,,fatal ,,accident--,,his ,,narrow ,,escape ,,from ,,being ,a ,,victim4 ,many things have occurred in ,brother ,parkin's life to indicate that there has been a special providence over him--that his life has been preserved almost miraculously--leaving the impression upon his mind that the ,lord has a work for him yet to perform in mortality4 ,a most striking instance of this kind occurred when he was a boy only eight years of age4 ,he had a companion about his own age by the name of ,walker1 who was employed in a coal mine1 driving a donkey which conveyed cars of coal from distant parts of the mine to the main shaft1 where they were hoisted to the surface4 ,possibly because he was so employed1 his young companion conceived the idea that he also would like to work in a coal mine1 and accordingly applied for a position4 ,he was promised a job at opening and shutting a door by which the mine was divided into sections for protection against fire damp4 ,gratified at securing the job1 he was on hand early the next morning prepared to commence work1 but to his surprise he learned that another boy had also been promised the job and he too was on hand prepared to take it4 ,investigation proved that the other boy had the first promise1 and he was accordingly given the preference4 ,instead of young ,parkin going home1 however1 he yielded to the persuasion of his young friend ,george ,walker to spend the day with him4 ,he made several trips with the donkey1 and enjoyed the novelty of it1 and at the suggestion of another boy1 who had the care of another donkey1 also hauling cars of coal1 started to make a trip with him1 young ,walker remarking when he heard the proposition1 that it would be all right1 if he wanted to go1 as he would get back in time for dinner4 ,they had not proceeded far when a noise was heard and the lights suddenly went out1 leaving that part of the mine in total darkness4 ,the boys made their way to the main shaft to learn the cause of the trouble1 when to their horror they saw ,george ,walker and two others lying there dead and somewhat mutilated4 ,they soon learned that young ,walker and his companions had been in the cage ascending the main shaft when the rope by which the cage was being drawn to the surface had broken1 precipitating the cage to the bottom of the shaft1 with the result stated4 ,young ,parkin owed his escape from death to the circumstance of his quitting the company of the ,walker boy and going for a single trip with the other boy2 for if he had remained he also would have been in the cage when it fell4 ,when1 sometime after the accident occurred1 young ,parkin was hoisted to the pit brow1 he found his parents there almost frantic with anxiety1 for the rumor had reached them at their home that their boy was one of those who had been killed1 and they were unable to learn that such was not the case until their boy was brought to the surface1 when they wept for joy at finding him alive1 and declared that he should never go into a coal mine again4 ,however1 he did return to work in the mine on his own volition when he grew older1 and worked there many years4 ,,chapter ,v4 ,,resort ,,to ,,mining--,,caught ,,in ,a ,,snowslide--,,carried ,a ,,mile ,,down ,,the ,,mountain ,,as ,,if ,,fired ,,from ,a ,,catapult--,,miraculous ,,escape--,,fails ,,to ,,find ,,companion--,,return ,,to ,,mine ,,and ,,then ,,home--,,companion',s ,,subsequent ,,escape4 ,while farming has been ,brother ,parkin's regular vocation since coming to ,utah1 he has found it necessary to supplement it occasionally with other work to provide for his large family and fill the sphere he aspired to4 ,although mining was his original occupation1 he has not felt specially attracted to that class of work1 preferring something else that would not take him so completely and permanently away from his family4 ,one season1 however1 when he had not been in ,utah more than seven or eight years1 and when the ravages of the grasshoppers had materially interfered with the yield of his farm1 he found work as a miner in the ,reed ,benson mine1 near the top of the high mountainous range which separates the ,big ,cottonwood and ,little ,cottonwood ,canyons4 ,some time in ,march1 after he had been at work there about two months he and a companion named ,fred ,thompson were sent by the mine boss to bring a supply of provisions from ,alta1 in ,little ,cottonwood ,canyon4 ,the snow was1 deep1 and the only means they had of making the trip was walking4 ,they expected the trip would consume the whole day1 and be very tiresome1 but they set out bravely at eight o'clock in the morning4 ,they had to climb for some distance before reaching the summit1 when they would have a long descent to ,alta4 ,they had not proceeded very far1 making their way in the snow1 up the steep incline1 when they experienced the sensation of moving backward1 and1 looking upward1 discovered they were being carried down by a snowslide1 which had started only a short distance above them1 and probably by the jar produced by their walking in the snow4 ,for the first few seconds their descent was not very rapid1 and they tried to escape by grabbing at brush and saplings as they passed1 but all in vain2 the mass of snow gained in momentum and volume as it sped on1 and they soon felt as if they had been hurled from a catapult4 ,a few seconds later they passed over an immense precipice1 estimated by persons familiar with the canyon to be more than #bjj feet high1 the change from the sloping to the vertical plunge having the effect of turning them head downward1 instead of coming1 as they had been1 in a kind of sitting posture4 ,another change was experienced by ,brother ,parkin1 when the mass of snow struck terra firma at the foot of the precipice1 the sensation being that of a burial to an immense depth by the snow which continued down the side of the mountain at an ever increasing velocity4 ,then he felt as if he were being lifted by some supreme power to the surface of the snow1 and a peaceful feeling possessed his soul4 ,when the slide came to rest in the broad bottom of the canyon1 filling it to a great depth1 ,brother ,parkin found himself standing in an upright position with the snow scarcely reaching up to his waist4 ,his first concern when he found himself safe was for his companion4 ,he searched for him1 but could not find him4 ,concluding that his friend ,thompson must be buried in the snow and debris with which he had been swept down the mountain1 possibly too deep to be saved by any human means1 even if help were at hand1 he found time to think of himself4 ,the coat he had worn when he set out for the trip over the mountain had been entirely stripped from his body1 and his shirt and trousers were much torn1 evidently from catching in the brush in his terrific descent of more than a mile down the mountain1 but the garments worn next to his body were not even marred4 ,the feeling of gratitude towards the ,almighty that welled up within him for his preservation exceeded anything he had ever experienced4 ,he could not doubt that the ,lord had spared his life for some special reason1 and felt that whatever purpose the ,lord had for prolonging his life1 it was his duty if possible to find out what that purpose was1 and conform thereto4 ,he made his way by a wide detour up the mountain to the mine1 arriving there about five o'clock in the evening1 after a tiresome walk of something like eight and a half hours4 ,he was greeted with surprise by the mine boss1 who grabbed him in his arms and fairly hugged him for joy1 and his seven or eight companions who were scarcely less delighted at finding he had survived his terrible flight1 and seemed none the worse for it4 ,they inquired eagerly for ,thompson1 his companion1 but he could only say that the poor fellow was evidently buried in the slide1 and possibly beyond human help1 as he had searched for him in vain4 ,he then learned that the men at the mine1 warned of the slide by the noise it created almost at the start1 had witnessed with horror its frightful descent1 and made their way up the mountain as soon as possible to ascertain whether the two men had been carried down by it4 ,finding the bank of snow where the slide started showed a sheer break1 with no footprint on top of it1 they were forced to the conclusion that the men had gone down with the slide and were probably lost4 ,the mine boss had offered his companions ten dollars each if they or any of them would descend the mountain and search for their unfortunate fellows1 but none of them dared to undertake to do so4 ,brother ,parkin resumed work1 but a few days later1 after being given a check in payment of his services up to that time1 was dispatched to ,salt ,lake with ore samples1 to have them assayed4 ,from ,salt ,lake ,city he proceeded on his way home to ,bountiful1 where he was joyfully greeted by his wife and children4 ,when they learned1 as they did during the evening1 of his frightful experience in going down with a snowslide1 his wife was so terror-stricken at thought of her husband working in such a place1 that she declared he should never go back there again if she could help it4 ,in vain he reminded her that he had left his bedding at the mine4 ,she said the value of the bedding counted for nothing with her4 ,she would sacrifice that without a scruple1 to have him remain with her1 and he did so4 ,it was soon afterwards learned that ,thompson also had escaped4 ,he found himself completely buried and evidently at a considerable depth1 when the snowslide stopped1 and he began immediately to dig his way out4 ,he struggled desperately and burrowed for a long time without knowing whether he was going towards the surface or not1 and was finally successful in extricating himself4 ,his clothing was badly torn and he was more or less bruised1 but succeeded in making his way to a logging camp some distance down the canyon1 whence1 after a rest1 he made his way to ,salt ,lake ,city4 ,,chapter ,,vi4 ,,father ,,john ,,parkin ,a ,,pugilist--,,defends ,a ,,mormon ,,elder--,,shelters ,,him ,,from ,a ,,storm ,,and ,,learns ,,something ,,of ,,mormonism--,,whole ,,family ,,embrace ,,the ,,gospel4 ,brother ,parkin recalls some incidents of his childhood1 that tend especially to illustrate the character of his father1 and the effect of the ,gospel in shaping the lives of individuals4 ,his father was a pugilist--by instinct rather than by profession though--for he did not follow it for a living4 ,he was not a large man1 but had a closely knit1 muscular frame1 no surplus flesh1 was about as active as a cat and possessed unbounded courage4 ,while not of a quarrelsome nature1 he just naturally enjoyed a scrap4 ,he taught his older sons the manly art of self defense1 and gave them to understand that he had no patience with molycoddles4 ,he didn't want them to pick a quarrel1 but if any one ever attempted to impose on them1 or their friends1 he expected them to give a good account of themselves4 ,he would be ashamed to have any body who bore his name ever show the white feather4 ,the father was passing along the street of his native hamlet in ,england one day when his attention was attracted by a rather large and noisy crowd of people who were1 as he learned on joining them1 listening to a local ,mormon ,elder advocate his doctrines1 with frequent and noisy interruptions4 ,the interruptions he soon found were mainly made by three preachers1 one a ,baptist1 another a ,methodist and the third a ,church of ,england minister4 ,he recognized these when he saw them1 for they were well known and somewhat popular in their special lines of religion1 but the ,mormon ,elder was a stranger to him2 in fact1 he had never before met a ,mormon1 or heard or read of ,mormon doctrines4 ,he had not listened long when his sense of fairness became so outraged by the sneering1 ridiculing1 captious interruptions by the preachers1 and the laughter of their sympathizing auditors1 that he pushed his way into the center of the crowd and asked the lone ,mormon ,elder to allow him to say a few words4 ,the privilege being granted1 he told the crowd that he was not a preacher1 and knew nothing about the doctrines this man was preaching1 but he believed in free speech1 and fair play1 and thought the man ought to be allowed to tell what he had to say without interruptions4 ,then if the preachers could controvert it1 they might fairly do so4 ,his remarks had the effect of quelling the disturbance momentarily1 but the ,elder had scarcely resumed his speaking when the preachers1 apparently bent upon not allowing him to proceed1 burst forth again with their interruptions4 ,with indignation now thoroughly aroused1 ,mr4 ,parkin shook his fist in the faces of the preachers and demanded fair play4 ,i don't know this man1 said he1 but he looks and talks decently1 and he's got to have a hearing1 if ,i have to smash the men that interrupt him4 ,the ,baptist preacher had a wooden leg1 and perhaps presumed upon that in being the first to cry out in ridicule when the ,mormon again essayed to proceed4 ,grabbing him by the collar and shaking him1 ,mr4 ,parkin angrily demanded1 ,are you going to compel me to hit you1 even though you are a cripple8 ,now keep your mouth shut1 or ,i'll have to do it6 ,he had scarcely let loose of the preacher's collar when a stalwart son of the preacher rushed out from the crowd and made a pass at him with his brawny fist2 but ,mr4 ,parkin saw the movement1 and1 nimbly dodging the blow1 struck out with his good right hand with such force that his big assailant went down as if he had been hit with a sledge hammer4 ,while friendly hands began fanning the youth and throwing water in his face to resuscitate him1 ,mr4 ,parkin with blood boiling and eyes flashing defiance1 proceeded to deliver this challenge to the whole crowd in true bantam fashion3 ,come on now1 all of you1 one at a time1 and ,i'll whip the crowd6 ,none of them chose to accept the challenge4 ,on the contrary1 they neither manifested any disposition to fight him or further listen to the preaching1 for they soon dispersed1 their departure being doubtless hastened by a brisk shower just then coming on4 ,turning to the ,mormon ,elder1 ,mr4 ,parkin inquired3 ,where do you live8 ,at ,langley ,mills1 nine miles from here1 was the reply4 ,you can't go home in this shower2 you had better walk home with me1 said the pugilist1 and his invitation was accepted4 ,the shower didn't pass as soon as expected2 but rather increased in severity as night approached1 and it became apparent that the guest must be provided with lodgings1 as the family hadn't the heart to turn him out in such a storm4 ,then1 too1 there was another reason for it--they had become somewhat interested in listening to his explanations of his belief1 the doctrines being all new to them4 ,the eldest son1 a boy about ten years old1 solved the question of lodging by offering to give up his bed1 and the mother helped out the matter by arranging for the boy to occupy an improvised bed in the room in which his parents slept4 ,when the time for retiring arrived the stranger asked1 as a special favor1 the privilege of praying with the family1 and the father replied to this by the declaration that he was not a religious man1 that he was a pugilist1 a cock-fighter1 a man who didn't believe in prayer and had no regard for things which others considered sacred2 but if it would afford him any gratification1 they would be willing to listen to him pray4 ,the prayer was offered1 and in it the guest thanked the ,lord that he had found one man who would accept the truth4 ,the eldest son1 the boy who gave up his bed for the stranger to sleep in1 recalls hearing his father ask his wife some time after retiring for the night1 what the man could have meant by alluding1 in his prayer1 to one man whom he had found in that town who would accept the truth4 ,she said she had no idea what man he had in mind1 and the husband told her he would find out by asking him the next morning4 ,and ask him he did1 the next morning1 and was not a little surprised when the ,elder turned and1 pointing to him1 said1 ,you are the man1 for ,i am sure you will yet embrace the ,gospel6 ,that local ,elder 7whose name was ,aaron ,nelson1 and who afterwards migrated to ,utah1 and died only a few years since in ,st4 ,george7 continued to come every ,wednesday and hold meetings in ,loscoe1 and ,mr4 ,parkin generally attended his meetings and stood by him1 to see that he got fair play4 ,finally1 at the close of one of the meetings ,mr4 ,parkin asked the privilege of making an announcement4 ,consent being granted1 he said3 ,i want to give out notice 7,elder ,nelson being willing7 that on ,wednesday night next ,i will be baptised by him1 at ,loscoe ,dam1 for ,i have become convinced that ',mormonism' is true4 ,he was deliberate about embracing it1 but he was as true to it thereafter as ever needle was to the pole4 ,the family all embraced the ,gospel and came to ,utah1 and the manner in which they first became interested in and were led to investigate ,mormonism furnished a theme for many a fireside conversation4 ,as an indication of the effect the ,gospel had upon the elder ,parkin it may be mentioned that after he joined the ,church he generously entertained all the missionaries who visited his part of the country1 made them presents1 and went to the limit of his ability in manifesting his love for them and his interest in the work in which they were engaged4 ,,chapter ,,vii4 ,,selling ,a ,,load ,,of ,,carrots ,,to ,,an ,,ex-,,missionary1 ,,whose ,,parsimony ,,is ,,exhibited--,,some ,,reflections ,,thereon4 ,some years after ,father ,parkin migrated to ,utah he rode to ,salt ,lake ,city one day with his son ,william1 who was bringing a load of carrots to sell4 ,as they rode along the street they met ,m4444 ,t44441 a man who had served as a missionary in ,england when they were new converts1 and been entertained many times at their house1 and to whom ,father ,parkin had been unusually generous when he was released to return to his home in ,utah4 ,brother ,t44441 who had the reputation of being among the wealthiest citizens of ,salt ,lake1 and as stingy as he was thrifty1 hailed them 7recognizing them of course7 and inquired what they wanted for their carrots1 and was told #be cents per bushel4 ,on further inquiry he learned that they had forty bushels in the wagon1 and after some parleying decided to buy the load4 ,the wagon was driven into his yard1 and ,brother ,t4444 procured a bushel basket to have them measured with1 evidently not caring to buy them according to the measurement of ,brother ,parkin4 ,brother ,parkin offered no objection to having them measured1 knowing that he had been rather generous in his measurement of the carrots1 but regretted the delay that it would cause1 as he and his father both had some purchases to make before they could leave town1 and they were anxious to get home4 ,when the wagon was not more than half unloaded ,brother ,t4444 was called by his wife to come to dinner1 and he asked his old acquaintances1 father and son1 to excuse him for a few minutes1 and take a rest while he ate his dinner 7leaving them to understand1 of course1 that he wanted to see the rest of the carrots measured47 ,work was suspended and father and son cogitated a few moments while each munched at a carrot1 for their appetites were keen enough to enable them to enjoy a good dinner too if the dinner had been forth-coming1 and soon the father broke the silence4 ,my son1 said he1 can you imagine ,elder ,m4444 ,t4444 when he was a missionary in ,england eating a carrot in a barn while ,i indulged in a warm meal in the house4 ,the son responded that he could not imagine such a situation4 ,on the contrary1 he said1 ,i remember distinctly that he never called at our house without being invited to eat1 whether it was meal time or not1 and that the choicest cuts of meat were bought to provide him the best meal possible1 and that you paid thirty-six shillings for silk with which to make a pair of stockings to present him with to bring home for his wife when he was released from his mission1 and that when those stockings were made they were admired by everyone who saw them and declared to be fit for any queen or princess to wear4 ,well1 my son1 the father added1 ,i don't regret anything ,i ever did for a missionary4 ,when ,i embraced ,mormonism ,i did it because ,i was sure it was the truth1 and ,i afterwards tried to serve the ,lord just as thoroughly as ,i had ever served the devil before4 ,the truth is not affected by men's actions1 and men's actions are not always affected by their knowledge of the truth4 ,brother ,t44 probably knows that the ,gospel is true1 but it has apparently not changed his nature4 ,i don't envy him his nature or his possessions4 ,better live on raw carrots and retain our love for the truth and our respect for those who have served with us in its promulgation1 than have the wealth of this world and forget or cease to respect our former friends and associates in the ministry4 ,the son was impressed with the change the ,gospel had wrought in his father1 for he could easily recall the time when he would not have looked charitably upon any action that savored of meanness or parsimony in one of his fellows1 and when the more pretentious the person was 7be he preacher or layman7 who displayed any such characteristic1 the more bold and ready he would have been to denounce him to his face4 ,the rumination was ended4 ,brother ,t4444 returned from the house and the unloading of the carrots was resumed1 ,brother ,t4444 keeping tally with a pencil on a board as the baskets were emptied4 ,when only a few bushels remained to be measured he exclaimed3 ,never mind measuring any more1 ,i see you have forty bushels1 allright4 ,then the son decided that it was his turn to speak right out in meeting4 ,but1 ,brother ,t----1 ,i do mind6 ,it was you that wanted these carrots measured4 ,i would have sold them to you for forty bushels if you had been satisfied to take them without measuring4 ,now we will finish measuring1 and if there are more than forty bushels1 we will take the overplus home1 if you do not want to pay #be cents a bushel for them4 ,the measurement of the balance disclosed the fact that there were forty-two bushels in the load1 and ,brother ,t4444 rather shamefacedly handed over #aj4ej in payment therefor4 ,a ,sailor-,saint's ,adventures ,,chapter ,i4 ,e4 ,r4 ,s4 ,,schnelle',s ,,belief ,,in ,a ,,providence ,,over ,,his ,,life--,,birth ,,and ,,succession ,,of ,,accidents--,,goes ,,to ,,sea ,,as ,,cabin ,,boy--,,cruel ,,treatment--,,pumping ,,sugar ,,and ,,water--,,ship ,,crushed ,,against ,,breakwater--,,reckless ,,jump--,,woes ,,as ,a ,,cook4 ,according to the old fatalistic saw3 ,if a man is born to be hung1 he can never be drowned4 ,this is far more trite than true4 ,so far as it implies that any man is born or predestined to be hung1 it is not true4 ,but that some have been marvelously and repeatedly preserved from drowning1 and that there is evidently some reason for their apparent immunity1 is true4 ,brother ,ernest ,r4 ,s4 ,schnelle has had many narrow escapes from drowning1 and been subjected to very many accidents of other kinds4 ,he firmly believes that there has been a ,providence over his life1 and that his willingness to accept the ,gospel and devote his life to the service of the ,master may be the sequel therefor4 ,he was born on the #beth of ,may1 #aheb1 in ,bremen1 ,germany4 ,he fell in the fire when only a few months old1 and narrowly escaped burning to death4 ,he bears the scar of the burn on his forehead even now4 ,he was almost drowned in a mill race when he was only two years old4 ,of course he doesn't remember the incident1 but was told so by his parents4 ,his mother was a consistent member of the ,protestant ,church1 but his father while nominally of the same creed had a poor opinion of preachers in general and was never known to attend ,church but once1 and that was on the occasion of the confirming of his eldest son2 and then he seized his hat and left in the midst of the sermon1 not having patience to remain longer4 ,without explaining her reason for the belief1 the mother used to say that the time would come when one of her boys would believe in the ,god of ,heaven4 ,of the parents and seven children which the family included1 ,ernest 7the subject of this sketch7 and one brother are all that are now alive1 and ,ernest has had such a checkered career that it is a wonder that he has survived4 ,when five years old he accidentally fell from a housetop1 and was supposed to be dead when picked up1 but1 to the surprise of all his friends1 he soon recovered4 ,when seven years of age he threw a snowball at a girl in a spirit of fun4 ,she resented it by taking off her wooden shoe and crushing his skull in with it4 ,when nine years old he had an accidental fall1 and broke his right arm1 and also fell from a ladder and drove his front teeth through his lip4 ,when he was fourteen years of age he went to sea1 as cabin boy1 in a ,spanish barque1 called the ,tres ,hermanos1 of ,allicante1 ,spain1 bound for ,havana1 ,cuba4 ,during the voyage the crew mutinied1 some ,spaniards being among them who used their knives quite freely4 ,the chief officer was beaten most shamefully and almost killed1 but the captain finally brought the rebellious men under subjection4 ,on reaching ,havana1 ,ernest quit the vessel1 and shipped on the ,spanish brig ,michael ,angel1 bound for ,falmouth1 ,england4 ,the very first day after sailing from ,havana he was stricken with yellow fever1 a disease that was so prevalent in ,cuba that many ships in the harbors were unable to sail for want of crews1 so many of the sailors having died of the fever4 ,ernest had the fever so badly for nine days that he was not expected to recover2 in fact1 no one thought it worth while trying to save him4 ,he was delirious as a result of the fever1 and was fastened in the sail locker at night1 and allowed to lie on the water casks in the day time4 ,however1 he lived in spite of the neglect with which he was treated1 but before he had recovered his strength he fell overboard4 ,the cook happened to hear the splash as he struck the water1 and on looking around saw him come to the surface and threw a rope to him1 by which he was hauled on board4 ,on the #hth of ,december1 #ahff1 the ship encountered a terrific storm in the ,bay of ,biscay1 during which the starboard bulwarks was washed away1 and the ship sprang a leak4 ,the cargo consisted of crude sugar and cacao beans1 and the sugar became dissolved through the water rushing into the hold4 ,the crew had to be kept busy for two and a half days1 pumping the sugar and water out of the hold1 to keep the ship afloat4 ,falmouth was reached in the beginning of ,january1 and the ship was repaired4 ,on the #ahth of ,january she set sail for ,london1 with a channel pilot on board4 ,the next day she encountered a severe storm in which she lost her foremast head1 and the pilot thought best to return to ,falmouth1 which place was reached the following day4 ,the storm increased in fury and the ship1 dragging both anchors1 was being driven on to the break water4 ,her signals of distress brought no relief1 for all the ships near by had enough to do to take care of themselves4 ,the ship struck broadside against the breakwater1 damaging it to such an extent that it sank within a few minutes4 ,ernest was standing upon the deck when the collision occurred1 and sprang towards the breakwater4 ,it was a very daring--in fact1 foolhardy thing for him to do1 as he had about one chance in a thousand of escaping death1 but fortunately he did escape1 by clutching the timbers of the breakwater1 almost as a cat would1 and clinging on thereto4 ,as the ship sank the crew clambered up the breakwater and were saved4 ,ernest had been so cruelly treated while on board the brig that he had little regret at the loss of the vessel4 ,the captain was a ,spaniard1 and a most hard-hearted1 cruel man4 ,he was the owner of the vessel1 and was so avaricious that he actually begrudged the boy the food required to keep him alive4 ,he expected him to subsist upon such scraps as were left from his own meals1 and if there were none left1 for him to go without1 and would curse him if he asked for food1 telling him that he was a poor ,spaniard1 and couldn't afford to feed him4 ,when the ship was lost1 not being insured1 he was indeed poor4 ,the crew were so incensed at him1 because they couldn't collect the pay due them1 that several of them actually drew their knives and attempted to assault him in the ,spanish ,consul's office at ,falmouth4 ,ernest was kept at the ,cornwall ,sailors' ,home for a few weeks1 as he neither had any means of subsistence nor chance to go home1 and then was told to get out and shift for himself4 ,he began seeking employment among the ships in port1 and soon succeeded in finding a captain who was willing to employ him as cabin boy at #e4jj per month4 ,his new berth was soon found to be but little better than his former one1 so far as treatment was concerned4 ,the first job given him to do was to black the captain's shoes4 ,the shoes were wet1 and he didn't succeed in making them shine as nicely as they otherwise would have done1 and he received a clout for it that almost made him see stars4 ,however1 he had sufficient to eat1 and was thankful for that4 ,the vessel was a ,hanoverian brig1 the ,lucy von ,leer1 ,captain ,jensen commanding1 bound for ,antwerp4 ,he soon found out that1 in addition to serving as cabin boy1 he was also expected to cook for the officers and crew4 ,while preparing his first dinner he was sent aloft to shorten sail1 and when he came down the peas he was cooking were burned1 and that brought down upon him the wrath of all the officers and men who learned of it4 ,the channel pilot yelled for some one to beat him1 and he had to run the gauntlet to escape the blows aimed at him4 ,after arriving at ,antwerp1 while waiting for the crew to be paid off1 and when he had just finished cooking the ,sunday dinner1 several of the crew volunteered special praise for the quality of the soup he had made for them4 ,he was so overjoyed thereat that he forgot to take the spoons from the water in which he had been washing the dishes1 and threw them and the water together overboard into the dock4 ,the spoons were not missed until supper time arrived1 and then the failure to find them resulted in his recalling and confessing his forgetful act1 and receiving such a general and merciless beating that the crew of a ,norwegian barque1 lying in the dock near by interfered1 and threatened to come to his relief and thrash the ,hanoverians if they didn't desist4 ,they stopped beating him1 but the chief officer swore that he would get even with the boy when he got to sea4 ,fearing the threat might be executed1 ,ernest watched his chance to escape1 and succeeded in getting away two days later1 probably saving his life by doing so1 as the boy taken in his place died of yellow fever in ,rio ,janiero1 whither the ship sailed4 ,ernest succeeded in finding a chance to return home by working his passage on a ,hanoverian barque called ,emil1 commanded by ,captain ,onkier4 ,when he went on board the ship1 it being in the night1 a big ,newfoundland dog seized him and nearly worried him to death4 ,the dog not only bit him severely1 but so thoroughly frightened him that he crouched in a corner1 not daring to stir until the carpenter discovered him there the next morning and released him4 ,being at the mercy of the crew on the voyage to ,bremer ,haven1 he was compelled to steal provisions and liquor for them1 and was caught in the act by the ,captain who struck him on the side of the head with such force that it sent him reeling1 and he was subsequently beaten by the crew for his lack of success4 ,during the nine days' voyage he had no bed to sleep on or cover himself with1 and he was about as comfortless as when he shared the bed of the dog4 ,he reached home nine months after first embarking1 about half clad and without a cent to show for the time he had been absent4 ,his parents1 however1 gave him a hearty welcome1 and were horrified at learning of his narrow escapes and severe treatment4 ,,chapter ,,ii4 ,,embarks ,,as ,,ordinary ,,seaman--,,captain',s ,,premonition ,,and ,,sailors' ,,fear--,,amazone ,,wrecked--,,dying ,,sailor',s ,,vision--,,grewsome ,,seat--,a ,,typhoon--,,ship ,,seized ,,by ,,french--,,travel ,,in ,,russia--,,finds ,a ,,wife--,,converted ,,to ,,mormonism4 ,in ,april1 #ahfg1 he found employment as an ordinary seaman on a ,german mail boat1 sailing between ,bremer ,haven and ,new ,york1 his compensation being #f4jj per month4 ,he fared so much better on that vessel that he quite enjoyed his berth1 but was ambitious to learn more of seamanship than he could on the steamer1 and after one year's service quit that and joined the ,hamburg barque ,amazone1 bound for ,cardiff to load up with coal for ,hong ,kong1 ,china4 ,as the vessel was leaving the ,geestemunde dock1 her owner stood on the quay side1 and1 as the last rope was cast off1 he placed his hand on the ship's side and said1 ,good by ,amazone2 ,i will never see you again6 ,ernest heard the remark1 and repeated it to two of his comrades4 ,sailors are notoriously superstitious1 and the effect was that they felt sure the vessel was not going to reach her destination4 ,they laid their plans to desert the ship at ,cardiff1 and would have succeeded if some one had not overheard their talk1 and reported to an officer4 ,they had each two suits of clothes on1 prepared to make their escape1 when they were apprehended by a policeman and compelled to return4 ,ernest plead with the captain to let him go1 saying he could keep all his belongings and wages due if he would only grant him his liberty1 but didn't dare tell why he wanted to escape4 ,the captain however1 refused1 saying he had never had a man desert him1 and he wouldn't allow him to4 ,with the exception of alternate head winds and calms1 which greatly retarded the vessel1 nothing serious occurred until the ,cape of ,good ,hope was rounded1 when heavy storms and high seas were encountered4 ,the bulwarks were swept away1 the main batch burst in1 and six casks of fresh water were swept overboard4 ,ernest and a companion were standing at the steering wheel when the second mate warned them to hold on1 as a heavy sea was about to break over the ship4 ,they both gripped the wheel with all their strength1 but1 as the wave passed over1 ,ernest saw1 to his horror1 his companion go with it2 then1 marvelous to relate1 as the ship bent down under the weight of the second huge wave1 the sailor grasped a mizzen chain and clung on1 and shouted until others of the crew came to his relief and hauled him back to safety4 ,with nine feet of water in the hold1 the ship was unmanageable1 and the captain told the crew they would either have to pump or sink4 ,by some working the pumps for dear life1 and others nailing canvas over the hatchway1 and stanchion holes1 and by throwing eighty tons of cargo overboard to lighten the ship1 they managed to weather the storm2 but five nights and four days had passed before they dared cease pumping4 ,this danger had not long passed when a new horror presented itself--a scarcity of fresh water4 ,for six long weeks they were dependent upon the steam from a saucepan or the dew that could be mopped up in the early morning from the ship's railing to quench their thirst1 and the suffering they endured as a result in that hot1 dry climate is indescribable4 ,at the end of that time the ,english barque ,virginia was sighted1 and a casque of water obtained1 and also another from the ,fair ,leader of ,plymouth1 ,england1 which relieved them until an uncharted reef was struck in the ,china ,sea1 and the vessel1 after hanging amidships for about ten hours1 broke in two and foundered4 ,the officers and crew were saved by taking to the life boats in the night1 but without being able to secure any provisions or stores1 as the sea was high and broke constantly over the vessel as it hung upon the reef4 ,the breaking asunder and sinking of the vessel was witnessed from a distance after day had dawned4 ,the bark ,fair ,leader already mentioned as having furnished a cask of fresh water1 was in the vicinity and saw the signals of distress after the ,amazone had struck the reef1 and steered in the direction indicated4 ,when it was light enough to see1 the two boats were sighted and the men picked up4 ,then it was learned that a member of the crew of the ,fair ,leader1 who was dying of dropsy1 had evidently seen in vision the destruction of the ,amazone1 and the peril of the crew afterwards1 afloat in the life boats4 ,he told his mates of the very time of the boats leaving the fated ship1 that they were in two white life boats1 and that one had a flag and the other a blanket for a sail2 also that they would come on board the ,fair ,leader and remain there a long time4 ,perhaps what he said1 even more than the signals of distress1 influenced the officers of the ,fair ,leader in deciding to remain in the vicinity until morning4 ,the ,amazone crew were picked up about nine o'clock in the morning1 and one of the first things ,ernest did after getting on board1 was to sit down upon what he supposed to be a roll of sail or blankets1 that he saw on the deck1 but which proved to be the body of the sailor who had seen in vision and told of their wreck and subsequent peril4 ,he had died soon after telling it1 and was buried during the afternoon of the same day4 ,a few days later the ,fair ,leader encountered a genuine typhoon1 and the ship sprang a leak and would probably have foundered had it not been for the extra crew on board1 who1 by helping man the pumps1 kept her afloat4 ,ernest1 while working at the pumps1 was washed away by a wave and struck with such force against the bulwark that his knee was severely injured1 and he had to be taken to a hospital for treatment on reaching ,shanghai1 a month later4 ,he remained in ,shanghai about five weeks1 when he shipped on a ,german bark ,catherine ,jorgensen--engaged in the ,china trade4 ,he sailed first to ,nimpo1 where a valuable cargo was taken on board and then set sail for ,hong ,kong4 ,he had the thrilling experience of being chased by ,chinese pirates1 but escaped by a favorable wind propelling the barque too fast for the pirate boat1 with its more limited sailing capacity1 to overtake her4 ,ernest sailed the ,china sea for three years4 ,his last voyage there was with a cargo of #ijj coolies1 bound for ,singapore1 where he quit the ship and was transferred to a ,german ship called ,caroline1 sailing for ,akiab1 ,india4 ,four days later the ship was seized by the ,french frigate ,dassas1 and the crew taken prisoners1 as the ,franco-,prussian war was then raging4 ,ernest and his companion sailors were taken to a point just outside the ,singapore harbor on the man-of-war1 their captors not daring to enter1 as that would be considered an act of hostility against ,great ,britain4 ,there it was learned for the first time by the ship's officers that the war was ended1 the ,germans having conquered the ,french1 and that the capture of the ,german ship while the armistice was pending would subject the ,french government to a heavy indemnity4 ,on the arrival at ,singapore of the ,caroline the officers and crew were liberated with apologies1 and allowed to proceed with their ship to ,akiab4 ,ernest contracted a virulent fever at ,akiab1 and would have been left there by the ship had not the shore doctor forbidden it1 declaring that he never would recover if left there1 but that he probably would if taken to a colder clime4 ,the fever left him when the ship rounded the ,cape of ,good ,hope4 ,landing at ,falmouth1 he proceeded to his old home at ,bremer ,haven4 ,as the ship entered the ,bremer ,haven dock1 ,ernest saw his mother on the quay1 watching for him1 as she had been warned by inspiration the night previous that he would arrive on that ship1 that day4 ,she had not heard from him for more than two years1 and had no reason other than that mentioned for expecting that he was anywhere in that region4 ,he remained home about nine days and then shipped on a ,bremen ship bound for ,savannah1 ,georgia4 ,he remained on that ship until it made a subsequent voyage to ,reval1 ,russia1 where he left it and traveled for awhile overland1 going as far as ,cronstadt4 ,he was under suspicion because of having no passport1 and narrowly escaped being transported to ,siberia4 ,after following the sea for about twelve years1 ,ernest took up his residence in ,england1 locating first at ,hull and afterwards in ,south ,shields1 but continued to make voyages to various parts of the world1 generally serving as boatswain or steward4 ,on one voyage to his native land the ship ,thetis in a violent storm had her bulk-head stove in and was filled up with water to such an extent that the table was floating around in the cabin1 and1 ,ernest1 with the companion way and skylight battened down1 was shut up like a rat in a trap1 and busied himself at baling the water out4 ,to the surprise of all on board1 they succeeded in floating the ship into ,hamburg4 ,there ,ernest secured for a wife one whom he had known as a young girl4 ,they arranged to be married in ,england the following ,april1 and1 after the cargo was discharged1 he returned to ,england1 where the ship was thoroughly repaired4 ,the following ,march1 while entering the port of ,blyth1 to load coal for ,hamburg the ,thetis was1 through error of judgment on the part of the captain1 run on to the rocks and became a total wreck4 ,of course1 no lives were lost1 but this wreck had the effect of deferring ,ernest's marriage4 ,instead of it occurring in ,april1 it was postponed till the following ,november4 ,it took place in ,shields1 ,england1 where he established a home and lived for many years1 his six children being born there4 ,in #ahhh1 while sailing on the ship ,breton1 commanded by ,captain ,ole ,peterson1 who was a ,latter-day ,saint1 he first learned of ,mormonism4 ,he had been investigating ,spiritualism1 but abandoned it on learning that the ,spiritualists repudiated ,christ as a ,savior4 ,he had heard of the ,mormons as being a bad people1 but was anxious to learn from the captain really what his belief was4 ,he opened up a conversation by asking the captain his opinion of ,spiritualism4 ,the captain replied3 ,you are not a spiritualist4 ,you belong to the ,church of ,england1 and have now found what you have been looking for so many years--the true ,gospel4 ,and you will soon become a ,latter-day ,saint4 ,he then explained the ,gospel to him1 and told how it had been restored to the earth through the ministration of angels4 ,on hearing this ,ernest's heart beat with joy1 and he felt certain the captain was telling the truth4 ,he1 being steward1 one part of his duty was to keep the captain's stateroom tidy1 and while doing so a copy of the ,millennial ,star came into his hands1 which he read with avidity1 and learned still more of ,mormon doctrine4 ,adverse winds were encountered on that voyage1 and they were twenty-one days in making the round trip1 whereas it should only have taken six days4 ,ernest heard the captain make a remark that there must be some reason for the weather being so against him1 and said he wondered if his wife had neglected to pay the money for tithing he had left with her for that purpose4 ,ernest inquired what he meant by that1 and had the law of tithing explained to him1 and he felt in his heart then that it was a correct doctrine4 ,on the captain's arrival in ,england he found out that his wife had not paid the tithing4 ,one year from the time he first had the ,gospel explained to him1 ,ernest was baptized by ,captain ,peterson 7,september #ah1 #ahhi7 in the ,north ,sea4 ,immediately after his confirmation he inquired of the captain where he should send his tithing to1 as he wanted to pay it4 ,he commenced paying it then1 and has been faithful in doing so ever since4 ,on embracing the ,gospel he remarked to ,captain ,peterson that he supposed now his troubles were ended1 but was told that he was wrong in that supposition1 for his troubles were only commencing2 that he should have the finger of scorn pointed at him1 and find opposition even in his own household2 but to be comforted1 for the day would come when his wife would accept ,mormonism and become a faithful ,saint4 ,he found the captain's prediction to be verily true4 ,while his wife was at first very much wrought up over his conversion1 she afterwards investigated and embraced the ,gospel1 and has been faithful ever since4 ,from the time ,ernest was baptized he advocated its doctrines and was ridiculed and persecuted as a consequence1 but the stronger the opposition the more zeal he manifested4 ,he received the nickname of ,harry1 the ,mormon1 and was better known by that soubriquet than any other4 ,he was ordained an ,elder ,april #e1 #ahia1 and the next day baptized his wife and her sister4 ,ernest continued to follow the sea1 and still met with adventures that satisfied him that the devil had not ceased trying to encompass his destruction4 ,,chapter ,,iii4 ,,sent ,,to ,,hospital--,,blue ,,jacket ,,converted--,,warned ,,by ,,spirit ,,to ,,leave ,,ship--,,disobeys ,,warning--,,narrow ,,escape ,,when ,,ship ,,founders--,a ,,dangerous ,,fall--,,led ,,by ,,inspiration--,,inspired ,,promise ,,fulfilled--,,work ,,in ,,temple--,,departure ,,for ,,mission4 ,while on a voyage from ,shields to ,plymouth he was stricken with rheumatic pains in his legs1 that rendered him helpless2 in fact1 his pain was so excruciating that morphine had to be injected into him to get him out of his berth4 ,he appealed to the ,lord to know why he should so suffer1 when an assurance came to him that there was a purpose in it1 as there was a work for him to do in a hospital4 ,the captain was anxious to take ,ernest back to his home1 as he would reach ,south ,shields in two days' time1 and plead with the doctor to give him something to ease his pain in the meantime4 ,the doctor1 however1 positively refused to have him go1 and insisted that he be sent to the ,royal ,albert ,hospital1 at ,devonport4 ,on arriving there ,ernest soon became satisfied of the purpose of the ,lord1 for1 on looking around1 he discovered that the patient occupying the cot on his left was a true ,israelite4 ,he availed himself of an early chance to make known the principles of the ,gospel to him4 ,the patient got out his bible and verified by reference to it all the doctrines that ,ernest advanced1 after which he declared his conviction that it was the truth4 ,considerable excitement among the patients in the ward1 as well as the nurses and matron was the result4 ,two of the patients recalled the fact that they had heard ,mormonism preached and rejected it forty-six years before4 ,a minister visited the hospital early the next morning1 having evidently been sent for1 to controvert what ,ernest had taught1 but the converted patient put up such a strong defense of ,ernest and the latter bore such a strong testimony of the ,truth1 that the minister was soon glad to retire discomfited4 ,the patient praised ,god that the truth had come to him and related this circumstance to prove that ,ernest's visit to the hospital was providential4 ,he said he was a stoker aboard a ,british man-of-war in ,hong ,kong1 ,china1 when he developed hip disease1 and was sent to a hospital4 ,his case being considered a desperate one1 it was decided to send him to the ,royal ,albert ,hospital1 of ,devonport1 ,england1 for treatment1 and1 after he and many other patients had been taken on board the ship which was to convey them to ,england1 the doctor1 for some unknown reason1 decided that he alone should be sent ashore again1 and make the voyage by a vessel starting later4 ,that boat with more than #djj passengers was lost at sea1 but he safely landed in ,england by a later vessel4 ,he believed the ,lord had planned it that he might learn of the ,gospel1 and declared his intention of drawing his money 7#adj4jj7 out of the bank1 and making his way to ,london1 if he should sufficiently recover to do so1 and there get baptized1 if he had to go through fire to accomplish it1 and then migrate to ,zion4 ,the poor fellow died in the hospital three months later1 still firm in his belief in the ,gospel4 ,his belongings1 including a ,book of ,mormon and some tracts left with him by ,ernest1 were sent to his brother in ,ireland4 ,all the work essential for the salvation of the dead has recently been done for that man--,samuel ,long--in the ,salt ,lake ,temple1 by ,ernest4 ,before leaving the hospital ,ernest received a telegram from his old captain telling him that the ,cramlington would again be at ,devonport on a certain date1 and if he was well enough he would be glad to take him back home4 ,he accordingly announced his intention to leave the hospital1 although he was still unable to walk1 and the doctor consented reluctantly for him to go4 ,after getting on board the vessel1 the ,spirit manifested to him that he ought to leave the ship1 and he proposed to the captain to do so1 offering the plea that he was not fit for service2 but the captain plead so hard for him to stay1 offering to hire a man to do all his work1 that he finally yielded4 ,on the next voyage1 which was to ,rouen1 ,france1 the vessel was all but lost1 off ,flambrough ,head1 by the breaking down of the engines in a violent storm off the lea shore4 ,ernest1 seeing the plight the vessel was in1 threw up his hands and cried to the ,lord to have mercy on him1 and forgive his disobedience2 and not suffer the ship to be dashed against the rocks1 which would mean certain death to all on board4 ,the captain ordered the anchors to be thrown out1 but the ship dragged the anchors1 and when it seemed that nothing could save the vessel a cry of relief was heard from the chief engineer1 for the engines had again started working4 ,the order was given ,full speed ahead6 and in a few moments the vessel was free from danger4 ,on reaching ,rouen the engines were overhauled1 and the chief engineer was horrified when he saw that it was by the merest thread that they were saved from a complete collapse4 ,notwithstanding this evidence of the dangerous condition of the ship1 as well as the ,spirit's warning not to trust himself on it1 ,ernest still remained on her1 and set forth on a voyage from ,blyth to ,plymouth4 ,when off ,dover at midnight the ship collided with the ,dutch steamer ,ceres1 and sank in six minutes4 ,ernest was asleep in his berth at the time1 and would have drowned had not the captain1 who was on deck when the collision occurred1 rushed down into the cabin to secure the ship's papers4 ,seeing ,ernest asleep1 he grasped him by the shirt collar and dragged him on deck1 thus saving his life1 but losing all his own effects1 that he might otherwise have saved4 ,ernest was the last to enter the boat1 which had scarcely left the side of the ship when she foundered4 ,all hands were saved through the ship ,ceres picking them up and landing them in ,amsterdam1 after they had been supplied with clothing1 some of them having barely escaped with their night clothes on4 ,if ,ernest had listened to the whisperings of the ,spirit two weeks previously1 he would not have been aboard at the time of her final catastrophe4 ,in the month of ,july1 #aijc1 ,ernest shipped as steward on board the steamer ,augusta1 bound for ,hamburg1 taking his wife along for the benefit of her health4 ,contrary to his original intention he decided to leave her at ,hamburg4 ,on the passage back to ,england the vessel ran upon the rocks known as the ,velvet ,patch1 near ,marsden ,rock4 ,she was floated at high water of the next tide1 with the assistance of three tugs1 and succeeded in making her way to the ,tyne1 where she was put in the dry dock at ,south ,shields4 ,then it was found1 that forty two plates had to come out of her bottom1 and that her stern post1 rudder post and propeller were gone4 ,although no lives were lost1 ,ernest felt thankful that he had left his wife in ,hamburg4 ,after the ship was repaired she sailed for ,hamburg again4 ,on arrival there the ,spirit prompted ,ernest to go ashore and call upon some of the ,saints4 ,on descending the rope ladder to go ashore by boat1 he had one of the narrowest escapes of his life1 and concluded that ,satan was trying to prevent him4 ,the ladder had been newly tarred1 and his foot slipped from it as a consequence4 ,he fell a distance of about twelve feet and saved himself by clutching the last rung of the ladder with two fingers4 ,had it not been for that1 he would have fallen between the ship and the lighter and been driven by the tide underneath one or the other of the vessels4 ,after landing1 and while walking the street1 he met one of the local ,saints1 ,brother ,pollock1 and learned from him that he was going to visit some of the ,saints as a ,teacher4 ,on invitation1 ,ernest accompanied him to the home of ,brother ,blecher1 his companion ,teacher1 who1 however1 was not at home1 being employed working overtime4 ,ernest was then invited to take ,brother ,blecher's place as a ,teacher1 and the two called upon a blind brother named ,eitner to accompany them4 ,the question then arose as to where they should go1 and ,brother ,eitner said he had heard of a sister being very ill1 but he didn't know where she lived4 ,ernest suggested that they depend upon the ,lord in searching for her1 and the three set out on the quest1 without any idea which direction they should take4 ,after proceeding some distance1 ,ernest stopped and said he felt sure they had passed the place they were searching for1 and they retraced their steps for a short distance1 when he stopped and inquired of a young man who was standing by a terrace if such a person1 7mentioning the sister's name7 lived there1 and was told that she did4 ,they entered1 and found the sick sister trying to write a letter to one of the ,elders1 requesting that he come and administer to her1 she being in a very feeble condition1 and also in want of food4 ,ernest administered to her1 promised that she should recover and soon be able to attend her meetings1 and the three supplied her with money to relieve her wants4 ,she acknowledged their visit as providential1 cried for joy at receiving the blessing and was able to attend the meeting the second ,sunday following4 ,while at ,hamburg on a subsequent trip he was urged by a widow1 ,sister ,kratz1 whom he met at meeting1 to call at her home4 ,on doing so he inquired if she paid her tithes and offerings1 and was told that she did1 although she was extremely poor4 ,he said1 before the visit ended1 that he felt like leaving his blessing with her4 ,she was delighted at the proposition1 and when he placed his hands upon her head he felt prompted to promise her that while she remained faithful and was careful not to waste even a crust1 that her table should never lack bread--that she should even have enough to feed her poor neighbors4 ,he heard nothing more from sister ,kratz until he visited ,hamburg sixteen months later1 when she met him with tears of joy and related how wonderfully his promise had been fulfilled4 ,she had been in the habit of buying stale bread because of its cheapness1 and when she called at the baker's for that purpose the same evening he had made the promise1 the baker's wife voluntarily filled her apron with bread and cakes1 and told her to come every evening for more4 ,the widow and her one child could only eat a fraction of what she got1 so she supplied the rest to her poor neighbors1 who highly appreciated the same4 ,after a while the baker's wife informed ,sister ,kratz that she did not know who she was or why she should give her the bread and cakes that became stale1 but she had felt prompted to do so1 and that her husband's business had never so prospered as since she had begun the practice1 and she consequently felt that she had been blessed for doing so4 ,sister ,kratz told her frankly about sharing what she got with her poor neighbors1 and of her conviction that the baker's prosperity was due to the prayers offered in his behalf by the recipients of her generosity4 ,on the #aath of ,december1 #aijg1 ,ernest was on the ship ,annandale1 bound from ,london to ,shields4 ,while coming down the ,swin the ship collided with the steamer ,kingscote1 which knocked a hole in her side about sixteen feet long4 ,the engine and boiler room were soon filled with water1 and the ship was gradually sinking inch by inch4 ,the collision occurred at midnight1 and at half past seven the following morning the ship settled down upon the sand4 ,after much effort she was finally floated and repaired sufficiently to get her into the dry dock4 ,this was the last wreck in which ,ernest figured4 ,he migrated to ,utah in the year #aijh1 has since devoted three years to work in the ,temple and has recently started upon a mission to ,great ,britain1 to labor specially among sea-faring people and emulate the example of ,peter in casting his net upon the waters and becoming a fisher of men4 ,obtaining ,genealogies ,by ,b4 ,f4 ,cummings4 ,,at ,,solicitation ,,of ,,saints ,,in ,,utah1 ,,engaged ,,in ,,genealogical ,,research ,,while ,,serving ,,as ,a ,,missionary--,,takes ,a ,,special ,,mission ,,for ,,such ,,work--,,impression ,,that ,,he ,,was ,,receiving ,,help ,,from ,,the ,,spirit ,,world--,,search ,,for ,,williams' ,,genealogies--,a ,,sign ,,and ,a ,,mutual ,,impression--,,valuable ,,data ,,obtained ,,from ,a ,,stranger1 ,,who ,,was ,,evidently ,,inspired--,,research ,,of ,,chamberlain ,,family ,,record ,,helped ,,by ,a ,,stranger ,,who ,,was ,,also ,,evidently ,,inspired ,,to ,,do ,,so--,,valuable ,,records ,,providentially ,,found ,,in ,,unexpected ,,place4 ,when ,i was twenty years of age ,i went on a mission to ,new ,england1 and was laboring there when the ,st4 ,george ,temple was dedicated4 ,the completion and dedication of this sacred structure greatly stimulated among the ,latter-day ,saints in the ,stakes of ,zion a desire to procure records necessary for ,temple work1 and a number of brethren and sisters1 who had migrated from ,new ,england to ,utah1 wrote to me and asked me to procure genealogical data for them4 ,i was kept too busy at missionary work to do very much record searching1 but ,i complied with such requests in a number of instances1 and soon came to feel an intense interest in genealogical work1 a sentiment that influenced my course of life for many years1 and still remains with me4 ,i returned from this mission in ,september1 #ahgg1 and soon after reaching my home1 which was in ,salt ,lake ,city1 ,i had a conversation with ,elder ,wilford ,woodruff1 who was then one of the ,twelve ,apostles1 in which ,i told him that ,i felt that it was my duty to return to ,new ,england for the purpose of procuring genealogies for such of the ,saints as might desire to employ me in that work4 ,he approved my sentiments1 and introduced me to ,president ,john ,taylor1 who likewise approved them4 ,at the ,april conference1 #ahgh1 ,i was set apart by ,elder ,orson ,pratt to go on a mission to ,new ,england and the ,eastern states to preach the ,gospel to the living1 but more especially to procure the records of the dead kindred of ,latter-day ,saints4 ,i was profoundly impressed by the blessing ,elder ,pratt gave me4 ,immediately after conference ,i started on this mission1 and was soon engrossed with my labors in the interest of the dead1 labors that consumed much of my time for many years4 ,although ,i was but a youth of limited education and at the outset of my genealogical work was almost totally ignorant of those branches of knowledge that are commonly considered absolutely essential to success in such work1 such as local history1 local laws and usages1 systems of records in towns1 cities and states1 etc4 ,i often met with a degree of success which surprised me4 ,many a time ,i was made to believe that ,i was receiving assistance from the other side of the veil1 and my faith to this effect has always been unshaken2 and it is my present purpose to relate a few incidents that tended to create this faith within me4 ,one of the first genealogies ,i undertook to trace on this mission was that of a ,williams family4 ,an aged widow named ,sister ,f--employed me to trace it1 and the data she gave me to start from pointed to ,newark1 ,n4 ,j4 as the place in and near which her ,williams kindred had lived1 and thither ,i went4 ,at this time ,i was an utter novice at such work1 with not a soul to teach me the first lesson in it4 ,i made my way to the surrogate's office and told the clerk in charge that ,i desired to trace the genealogy of the ,williams family of ,newark and vicinity4 ,he replied to the effect that ,i had a big job on my hands1 and advised me to call on ,judge ,jesse ,williams of ,orange1 a town a few miles from ,newark1 who1 he said1 could probably give me some information4 ,accordingly ,i took a car to ,orange and soon found myself near the center of that town4 ,the clerk had given me directions for finding ,judge ,williams' residence1 and ,i started to go to it4 ,i soon came to a marble yard which had a sign extending over the sidewalk4 ,the sign gave the name of the proprietor4 ,it was ,williams4 ,something seemed to say to me3 ,this man belongs to the family you are tracing1 and you had better speak with him4 ,a lady customer was selecting a gravestone1 and the proprietor of the marble yard was walking about with her1 directing her attention first to one monument and then to another1 apparently in an effort to suit both her taste and her purse4 ,as it would have been impolite to interrupt them1 ,i waited4 ,the lady could not decide4 ,it was getting late in the afternoon and ,i was uneasy at losing time4 ,mr4 ,williams had not noticed me1 and ,i decided to go on to ,judge ,williams' residence4 ,but something seemed to say to me3 ,this is the man you want to see4 ,but1 ,i argued with myself1 the clerk in the surrogate's office advised me to see ,judge ,williams1 and the clerk is likely to know whom ,i had better see4 ,for about an hour this debate continued in my mind4 ,the lady was about that long in choosing a stone and ,i chafed at the loss of time4 ,again and again ,i started to leave the marble yard1 but each time came the same prompting3 ,this is the man for you to see2 do not leave until you have talked with him4 ,yielding to my unseen adviser1 ,i waited4 ,when the lady had selected a stone1 ,mr4 ,williams approached me and asked what he could do for me4 ,i told him ,i desired to trace the genealogy of the ,williams family of that vicinity1 and seeing that his name was ,williams ,i had thought he might give me some information4 ,i am the man for you to see1 he said promptly4 ,i was struck with his words4 ,except that they were in the first person1 they were the same that my invisible monitor had many times repeated to me during the preceding hour1 an hour of impatient chafing on my part4 ,as he spoke he turned on his heel and without another word walked to a desk some distance away1 opened and took from it two sheets of foolscap paper4 ,with these sheets of paper in his hands he walked back to where ,i stood and proceeded to tell me that he had been desiring to know more about his ancestors1 that he had traced his fathers' line back to the first settler of the name in ,new ,jersey1 that he had arranged the pedigree in the form of a broadside1 7which was the old fashioned form for such a record71 that he had made two copies of this broadside1 which he held in his hands as he spoke1 and that ,i was welcome to one of them4 ,so saying he handed me one of the sheets1 to my great surprise and delight4 ,we conversed a few moments during which ,i thanked him heartily1 and then ,i returned to ,newark4 ,when ,i came to examine carefully the record he had given me1 ,i found it to be of great value to me1 or rather to ,sister ,f--4 ,it embraced her trunk line of ancestry as well as his own4 ,in fact1 they were near cousins4 ,i spent two or three weeks in the surrogate's office making abstracts of wills left on record by members of this ,williams family1 which was very numerous1 and collecting other data2 and the pedigree given me by the marble cutter1 which contained some #bjj names and six or seven generations1 was of great aid to me in establishing proper connections4 ,i was successful in obtaining and connecting many hundreds of names of this family1 although ,i was slow and awkward at the work4 ,how came the marble cutter to make a duplicate of his record8 ,the only answer that ,i can give is this3 ,so that a copy might be in readiness to give to me for use in the house of the ,lord4 ,some years later ,i had another experience of a similar character but even more striking4 ,i had been employed to complete the genealogy of a ,chamberlain family1 of ,new ,jersey4 ,in the court house in the town of ,freehold in that state is an extensive collection of land1 probate and other records dating prior to the ,revolution1 and rich in genealogical data4 ,i went to ,freehold to search these records for ,chamberlain material1 and expected to reap a harvest1 as previous searches had made me familiar with the collection of records there4 ,a walk of a few minutes took me from the depot to the court house1 and ,i spoke to no person on the way1 nor did ,i see any person who1 so far as ,i knew1 had ever seen me before4 ,ascending the steps of the court house1 an old fashioned structure1 ,i entered a wide corridor or hall1 ,i turned into the first room on my left1 which was a rather small office1 across which extended a counter1 through which was a gate or passage way4 ,behind the counter was a clerk1 a young man1 to whom ,i handed my card1 with the remark that ,i desired to search the oldest land records4 ,he told me to pass through the gate in the counter and go into the room next to his office through a door which he indicated4 ,in this door way ,i paused a few seconds to survey the room ,i was about to enter4 ,it was about #be by #dj feet in size1 had a high ceiling1 and its four walls were lined with iron shelves on which lay the massive volumes of land records4 ,i stood thus not more than two or three seconds when a gentleman1 who had been writing at a standing desk near the center of the room1 looked at me and then stepped quickly towards me4 ,at the same time ,i moved towards him4 ,when he was near enough to me to speak to me he asked me1 in a pleasant but abrupt manner3 ,what family are you tracing8 ,his question surprised me1 and ,i wondered how he knew ,i was tracing any family4 ,most persons searching the records in that room did so for data affecting land titles1 and at that moment several lawyers and lawyers' clerks were so engaged4 ,i promptly answered his question by saying simply3 ,the ,chamberlain family4 ,well1 here is a branch of it1 and with these words he handed me half a sheet of legal cap paper on which was written1 in ink that was still quite wet1 a pedigree giving several generations of a branch of the ,chamberlain family1 and showing a migration of part of this branch from ,new ,jersey to ,pennsylvania1 thus establishing an important connection4 ,as ,i received the sheet of paper from his hand1 the gentleman quickly turned and walked away from me without saying another word1 or giving me time to do so1 and left the building4 ,i was greatly astonished at the incident4 ,i do not believe ,i had been in the building more than one minute by the watch when the sheet of paper was placed in my hand4 ,i had not spoken to a soul in the building except the clerk in the front office1 and he could not have spoken to any one without my hearing him2 and so far as ,i had reason to believe1 not a soul in the building ever saw me1 or heard of me1 or knew my business4 ,some years had elapsed since ,i had been in the town4 ,the gentleman who gave me the pedigree was about #dj years old1 of medium height1 light complexion1 had a full1 round1 smoothly-shaven face1 and wore a pleasant expression of countenance4 ,after he had left the room ,i asked a gentleman who he was4 ,the gentleman believed he was a lawyer1 but did not give me his name4 ,i never saw him nor heard of him again4 ,while ,i was on the train en route to the town he was working on that pedigree1 and he completed it at the same moment at which ,i entered the land record room4 ,but why he spoke to me as he did1 and why he gave me the pedigree1 are questions that cannot1 in my opinion be answered without reference to agencies or influences that operate from behind the veil4 ,i knew that in colonial days a law required marriage licenses to be issued and a record kept of all marriages in the jurisdiction of which ,freehold was the seat1 and that the books containing these records ought to be in the court house4 ,but diligent inquiry of clerks and officials failed to bring these books to light4 ,i had spent several days searching land and probate records1 and was very anxious to examine these marriage records1 because ,i knew they would yield a large amount of valuable data concerning the family ,i was tracing2 but in deep disappointment ,i gave up all hope of finding them4 ,preparatory to leaving the court house for good1 ,i went into a small room in the center of the lower floor of the building1 which had no outside window and was very dimly lighted1 for the purpose of washing my hands1 as there was a wash bowl and towel there4 ,while thus engaged ,i cast my eyes around the room4 ,on a shelf near the floor ,i saw three ancient looking volumes1 and in the dim light read on the back of one of them the title3 ,marriage ,record4 ,with the eagerness of a hawk pouncing on a chicken ,i pounced on those three books4 ,on removing the thick and ancient dust that covered them1 ,i discovered that they all bore the same title4 ,i took them into a better lighted room and examined them1 and to by great joy found that they contained records of marriages covering a long period of time4 ,they were the books for which ,i had been making earnest inquiry among the clerks and officials of the court house1 none of whom had ever seen or heard of them4 ,i1 a stranger had discovered them in an out-of-the-way place where they had been stored years and years before4 ,i found in them the rich material ,i wanted1 between #bjj and #cjj ,chamberlain marriages4 ,but ,i should have left ,freehold without this precious data had not my glance1 in the little dimly-lighted room1 been directed just as it was4 ,genealogical work was never profitable to me financially1 but ,i always took great delight in it1 and often had experiences which convinced me that a marvelous providence attended me while so engaged4 ,warned by ,the ,spirit ,,chapter ,i4 ,,chauncey ,w4 ,,west ,,sent ,,on ,a ,,mission ,,to ,,asia--,,dreams ,,of ,,the ,,wreck ,,of ,a ,,vessel ,,upon ,,which ,,he ,,had ,,engaged ,,passage--,,left ,,the ,,ship1 ,,and ,,afterwards ,,learned ,,from ,,the ,,crew ,,of ,,the ,,vessel ,,being ,,wrecked ,,just ,,as ,,he ,,had ,,dreamed ,,that ,,it ,,would ,,be--,,while ,,awaiting ,,another ,,opportunity ,,to ,,ship ,,to ,,california ,,was ,,prompted ,,to ,,vacate ,a ,,house ,,where ,,he ,,and ,,companion ,,elder ,,were ,,staying--,,house ,,immediately ,,afterwards ,,crushed ,,by ,,large ,,stone ,,rolling ,,down ,,from ,,side ,,of ,,mountain4 ,numerous instances have occurred in the experience of the ,saints in this age1 and especially of the missionaries1 of their lives being preserved through their heeding the warnings of the ,spirit4 ,bishop ,chauncey ,w4 ,west1 of ,ogden1 who was sent on a mission to ,asia in #aheb relates some instances of this kind in a sketch of his life published in ,tullidge's ,histories4 ,the field of labor to which he was assigned was ,siam1 but after laboring for some time in ,india and trying in vain to secure passage to ,siam1 he and ,elder ,dewey took passage as sailors to ,china4 ,after a very trying voyage of four months they landed at ,wampoo in ,china1 near the city of ,canton4 ,finding it still impractical to make their way to ,siam1 they determined if possible to get back to ,san ,francisco4 ,among others to whom they applied for passage was ,captain ,deble1 of the ,american ,vessel ,hiega4 ,they agreed upon the terms of their passage1 and took their luggage on board on the #aath of ,may1 #ahed4 ,some difficulty was experienced in getting out to sea1 after which fair winds soon wafted them to ,hong ,kong1 where they arrived on the evening of the #adth4 ,there they remained until the #bcrd4 ,just before the time fixed for their departure ,elder ,west had a dream in which he saw the vessel upon which they had engaged passage wrecked upon a reef1 with hundreds of ,chinamen clinging to her hull1 while many more were in the water4 ,the dream was repeated several times during the night1 and made such an impression upon his mind that he determined to leave the ship4 ,the ,elders accordingly effected a settlement for their passage that far1 and were rowed to the shore in a small boat4 ,after spending some time at ,canton and ,hong ,kong1 being entertained at the latter place at the home of a ,mr4 ,young1 with whom they had become acquainted1 ,elder ,dewey was taken very sick with chills and fever4 ,elder ,west waited upon him with great solicitude and he soon began to recover4 ,one day ,elder ,west felt impressed to remove his friend from the house to a vessel called the ,cressy1 upon which he was trying to arrange for their passage to ,california4 ,he was in such haste to act upon his impression that their trunks were left in the house to be sent for later4 ,it had been raining very hard for several days1 and soon after they left the house a large rock on the mountain side1 loosened by the storm1 came rolling down at a terrific speed1 striking and demolishing the house they had just vacated4 ,the inmates fled1 in terror from the house1 but not in time for all to escape injury1 as one man was killed and several others more or less hurt4 ,the lives of the ,elders were doubtless saved by their acting promptly on the warning of the spirit1 for had they remained where they were a few minutes longer they would have been crushed4 ,elder ,west also subsequently met the captain of the ,hiega1 who insisted upon knowing why the two ,elders had abandoned the ship after engaging their passage4 ,elder ,west told him it was because of a dream he had of the vessel being wrecked4 ,the captain then asked why he did not tell him of the dream4 ,elder ,west replied that he did not believe the captain would have had any faith in the warning that the dream conveyed to him1 but would probably have denounced him as a fool for believing in it4 ,the captain admitted that he was probably right in his conclusion4 ,the ,elders soon found another chance of engaging passage to ,california1 and arrived safely in ,san ,francisco on the #gth of ,september1 #ahed4 ,,chapter ,,ii4 ,,elder ,,james ,,lawson ,,inspired ,,to ,,quit ,a ,,steamboat ,,on ,,which ,,he ,,was ,a ,,passenger--,,jumped ,,on ,a ,,flatboat--,a ,,few ,,moments ,,later ,,the ,,steamboat ,,sank1 ,,and ,,most ,,of ,,the ,,passengers ,,were ,,drowned4 ,elder ,james ,lawson1 a well known resident of the #afth ,ward of this city until a few years since1 narrowly escaped drowning in the ,mississippi river by acting promptly upon the warning of the ,spirit under the following circumstances4 ,having migrated from ,scotland1 his native land1 to ,new ,orleans in the year #ahdc1 he obtained employment there as a ship builder and machinist until the spring of #ahdd1 when he determined to continue his journey to ,nauvoo1 the destination he originally had in view4 ,he secured cabin passage on a steamboat1 but had not proceeded more than about fifty miles when he was suddenly awakened by a violent quiver of the boat caused by its hull striking a snag of some kind in the river4 ,not knowing the cause of the sensation1 but1 acting on the impulse of the moment1 he sprang out of bed1 hastily dressed1 and1 rushing on deck1 jumped from the deck railing to the deck of a flatboat that was being towed alongside the steamboat4 ,a few moments later the steamboat sank1 carrying with it to a watery grave nearly all the passengers4 ,elder ,lawson and a few other passengers who were fortunate enough to follow his example by jumping upon the flatboat saved themselves by cutting loose from the steamer and drifting with the stream until morning1 when1 as the flatboat neared the shore the men seized some overhanging limbs of trees and effected a landing4 ,he leisurely made his way back to ,new ,orleans1 obtained employment and remained there until the fall of the year1 when he again boarded a steamboat for ,nauvoo1 and in due time safely landed there4 ,,chapter ,,iii4 ,,comforting ,,assurance ,,experienced ,,by ,a4 ,o4 ,,smoot ,,during ,a ,,storm ,,at ,,sea--,,his ,,narrow ,,escape ,,from ,,being ,a ,,victim ,,of ,,the ,,saluda ,,disaster--,,his ,,account ,,of ,,the ,,explosion4 ,the blowing up of the steamboat ,saluda has often been mentioned as the only really serious catastrophe1 resulting in loss of life to a company of migrating ,saints in this age on a voyage4 ,it is certainly very remarkable1 in view of the many thousands of ,saints in hundreds of vessels of all kinds that have crossed oceans and traversed rivers that so few have lost their lives upon the water4 ,it is a very strong proof that the protecting power of the ,almighty has been over them1 for there have been numerous narrow escapes from disasters at sea4 ,indeed it has been so apparent that a special providence has been over the ,saints that others as well as the ,saints have been impressed by the fact4 ,the remark has been made upon many occasions by ship owners and sea captains that a company of ,mormons1 as passengers1 was the best insurance they could have upon a vessel1 as it was felt that nothing serious could happen to the craft while they were on board of it4 ,a good many instances are on record of ,latter-day ,saint ,missionaries being solicited to accept free passage on vessels for the protection it was felt their presence would afford4 ,doubtless one of the evidences that tends to convince sea captains that ,mormon missionaries or emigrants are the subjects of divine favor and protection is the feeling of confidence and trust they usually exhibit when beset by danger1 and when others quake with fear4 ,the assurance of divine care that comes through the ,holy ,spirit is quite as potent in influencing their actions as is the warning of danger from the same source4 ,the late ,president ,a4 ,o4 ,smoot gives an instance of this in connection with his account of the ,saluda horror4 ,from the latter it will be seen that the ,saints might have been saved from participating in that had the spirit's warning to him been heeded4 ,on my return from ,england in #aheb1 on board the new steamer ,pacific we encountered a severe storm1 in which the deck was swept clear of rigging1 the deck cabin1 one of the wheels1 both wheel houses and the bulwarks4 ,the steamer was entirely submerged in the sea at one time1 and had she not been very well built she would never have come to the surface again4 ,it looked like a precarious time1 but ,i felt an assurance that the vessel would be saved1 and in the midst of all the excitement which prevailed among the crew and passengers ,i felt quite calm4 ,i had seventeen thousand dollars in gold in my possession1 and ,i did not even fear that ,i would lose that4 ,our preservation1 however1 was certainly providential1 for the vessel was in a terribly dilapidated condition1 but we finally arrived safely in ,new ,york with the wrecked vessel1 after a voyage of sixteen days4 ,i subsequently had a very narrow escape on the occasion of the ,saluda disaster4 ,i had purchased the supplies for my company to make its overland journey with1 except cattle1 at ,st4 ,louis1 and had decided to go farther up the river to buy the stock1 when ,eli ,b4 ,kelsey came to me to consult with me in regard to chartering the ,saluda to convey an independent company of ,saints up the river4 ,i went with him to examine the boat1 and on finding that it was an old hulk of a freight boat1 fitted up with a single engine1 ,i strongly advised him against having anything to do with it4 ,he seemed to be influenced in making choice of it entirely by the fact that he could get it cheaper than a better one2 but in my opinion it seemed folly1 for1 in addition to the danger of accident1 the length of time likely to be occupied in making the journey would more than counterbalance what might be saved in the charge for transit4 ,however1 he decided to charter it1 and then both he and the captain urged me strongly to take passage with them1 offering to carry me free of cost if ,i would only go1 but ,i could not feel satisfied to do so4 ,i followed a few days afterwards on the ,isabella1 and overtook them at ,lexington1 where the ,saluda was stopped by the float-ice and was unable to proceed farther4 ,i went on board of her to visit the ,saints 7who were in charge of ,d4 ,j4 ,ross1 ,eli ,b4 ,kelsey having gone ashore to purchase cattle17 and left just before the last plank was drawn in1 preparatory to attempting to start4 ,i had not walked to exceed two hundred yards after leaving the ,saluda before the explosion occurred1 and on turning to look in the direction of the ill-fated boat ,i saw the bodies of many of the unfortunate passengers and various parts of the boat flying in the air in every direction4 ,fortunately for the ,saints on ,board1 they were mostly on the deck of the boat and pretty well towards the stern1 and they consequently fared better than those who were below1 or on the forepart of the boat1 which was blown entirely to pieces4 ,as it was1 however1 upwards of twenty of the ,saints were lost or subsequently died of their wounds4 ,my own preservation ,i can only attribute to the providence of the ,almighty1 for if ,i had remained a moment on the wharf to see the boat start1 as would have been very natural for a person to do1 ,i would have been blown into eternity as those were who stood there4 ,,chapter ,,iv4 ,,series ,,of ,,escapes ,,experienced ,,by ,,president ,,woodruff ,,through ,,heeding ,,the ,,spirit',s ,,warnings--,,instance ,,of ,,failing ,,to ,,do ,,so4 ,president ,wilford ,woodruff1 who was specially susceptible to spiritual impressions and guidance1 has related many instances of the ,spirit prompting him to do or refrain from doing certain things1 with the results of his action in the premises1 from which the following are culled as samples3 ,in #ahdh1 after my return to ,winter ,quarters from our pioneer journey1 ,i was appointed by the ,presidency of the ,church to take my family and go to ,boston1 to gather up the remnant of the ,saints and lead them to the valleys of the mountains4 ,while on my way east ,i put my carriage into the yard of one of the brethren in ,indiana1 and ,brother ,orson ,hyde set his wagon by the side of mine1 and not more than two feet from it4 ,dominicus ,carter1 of ,provo1 and my wife and four children were with me4 ,my wife1 one child and ,i went to bed in the carriage1 the rest sleeping in the house4 ,i had been in bed but a short time1 when a voice said to me1 ',get up1 and move your carriage4' ,it was not thunder1 lightning nor an earth-quake1 but the still1 small voice of the ,spirit of ,god--the ,holy ,ghost4 ,i told my wife ,i must get up and move my carriage4 ,she asked1 ',what for8' ,i told her ,i did not know1 only the ,spirit told me to do it4 ,i got up and moved my carriage several rods1 and set it by the side of the house4 ,as ,i was returning to bed1 the same ,spirit said to me1 ',go and move your mules from that oak tree1' which was about one hundred yards north of our carriage4 ,i moved them to a young hickory grove and tied them up4 ,i then went to bed4 ,in thirty minutes a whirlwind caught the tree to which my mules had been fastened1 broke it off near the ground and carried it one hundred yards1 sweeping away two fences in its course1 and laid it prostrate through that yard where my carriage stood1 and the top limbs hit my carriage as it was4 ,in the morning ,i measured the trunk of the tree which fell where my carriage had stood1 and ,i found it to be five feet in circumference4 ,it came within a foot of ,brother ,hyde's wagon1 but did not touch it4 ,thus by obeying the revelation of the ,spirit of ,god to me ,i saved my life1 the lives of my wife and child1 as well as my animals4 ,in the morning ,i went on my way rejoicing4 ,while returning to ,utah in #ahej1 with a large company of ,saints from ,boston and the east1 on my arrival at ,pittsburg1 ,i engaged a passage for myself and company on a steamer to ,st4 ,louis4 ,but no sooner had ,i engaged the passage than the ,spirit said to me1 ',go not on board of that steamer2 neither you nor your company4' ,i obeyed the revelation to me1 and ,i did not go on board1 but took another steamer4 ,the first steamer started at dark1 with two hundred passengers on board4 ,when five miles down the ,ohio river it took fire and burned the tiller ropes1 so that the vessel could not reach the shore1 and the lives of nearly all on board were lost either by fire or water4 ,we arrived in safety at our destination1 by obeying the revelation of the ,spirit of ,god to us4 ,in another instance1 after attending a large annual conference in ,salt ,lake ,city1 and1 having a good deal of business to attend to1 ,i was somewhat weary1 and at the close of the conference ,i thought ,l would repair to my home and have a rest4 ,as ,i went into the yard the ,spirit said to me1 ',take your team and go to the farm1' which is some three miles south of the ,tabernacle4 ,as ,i was hitching the horse to the wagon ,mrs4 ,woodruff asked where ,i was going4 ,i said1 ',to the farm4' ',what for8' she asked4 ',i do not know1' ,i replied2 but when ,i arrived there ,i found out4 ,the creek had overflowed1 broken through my ditch1 surrounded my home1 and filled my barnyard and pig pen4 ,my wife was wading in the water1 trying to turn it from the lot1 to save the home and family4 ,through my own exertions ,i soon turned it and prevented much damage that might have occurred had ,i not obeyed the voice of the ,spirit4 ,this same ,spirit of revelation has been manifested to many of my brethren in their labors in the kingdom of ,god1 one of which ,i will here name4 ,elder ,charles ,c4 ,rich was going from ,sacramento to ,san ,bernardino with a company of brethren4 ,he had in his possession a large amount of money to make payment on their land purchase4 ,this was known to some road agents in the vicinity1 who gathered a company of robbers and went on ahead of ,brother ,rich and lay in ambush1 intending to kill the ',mormons' and rob them of their money4 ,before reaching the company of robbers ,brother ,rich came to a by-path or trail4 ,the ,spirit then told him to take that path4 ,the brethren with him marveled at his course1 not knowing that enemies awaited them1 but they arrived in safety at ,san ,bernardino with their lives and money1 while the robbers wondered why their prey did not come4 ,recalled by ,elder ,heber ,j4 ,grant ,,excerpts ,,from ,,discourse ,,delivered ,,in ,,the ,,tabernacle1 ,,salt ,,lake ,,city1 ,,april #bf1 #aiad--,,methodist ,,episcopal ,,minister ,,converted ,,to ,,mormonism--,,goes ,,to ,,england ,,as ,a ,,mormon ,,missionary--,,calls ,,upon ,,his ,,former ,,minister--,,his ,,undignified ,,reception--,,anti ,,mormon ,,assertion ,,disproved ,,by ,,facts--,a ,,minister',s ,,confession--,,puzzling ,,questions ,,propounded ,,to ,,ministers1 ,,unanswered--,,attitude ,,of ,,latter-,,day ,,saints ,,thereon--,,unseen ,,evidence ,,of ,,power--,a ,,prediction ,,by ,,the ,,gift ,,of ,,tongues ,,that ,,was ,,literally ,,fulfilled--,,truth ,,only ,,strengthened ,,by ,,attempts ,,to ,,overthrow ,,it--,,karl ,g4 ,,maeser',s ,,conversion--,,his ,,pledge ,,and ,,its ,,fulfillment--,,ben ,,butler',s ,,advice4 ,i rejoice in a testimony of the divinity of the gospel of ,jesus ,christ1 as revealed to the ,prophet ,joseph ,smith in our day4 ,i rejoice in being able to proclaim to all the world that ,i know that ,joseph ,smith was a prophet of the true and living ,god2 that ,i know the gospel of ,jesus ,christ1 commonly called ,mormonism1 is in very deed the plan of life and salvation2 that it is that gospel which it was proclaimed should in the latter-days be restored again to the earth by an angel flying in the midst of heaven1 proclaiming it to every nation1 kindred1 tongue and people upon the face of the earth4 ,o1 says one1 but ,i do not believe that you have this knowledge4 ,yet1 the fact remains that individual disbelief regarding some information and knowledge that another man has cannot change the knowledge of that man1 if in very deed he has it4 ,i know nothing of chemistry4 ,therefore1 when a chemist tells me certain things in a sugar factory1 his statement may seem absurd to me4 ,when he tells me that by pouring two half-filled glasses of water together that water will immediately change to red1 blue1 green or some other color1 it seems absurd to me because the water appears to me to be perfectly pure and colorless4 ,but with the knowledge that the chemist has1 he knows what the result will be when he makes this mixture1 and he demonstrates before our eyes the truth of all the statements he makes4 ,now1 we maintain1 as ,latter-day ,saints1 that men and women who will look into and examine and study the gospel of ,jesus ,christ1 as revealed in our day through the ,prophet ,joseph ,smith1 can demonstrate its truth to their reasoning faculties2 and if they will pray to ,god for the inspiration of ,his spirit to guide and enlighten their minds1 they can also demonstrate by the ,spirit of ,god1 the divinity of this work in which we are engaged4 ,i call to mind that while presiding over the ,european mission1 one of the most eloquent preachers1 one of the best reasoners upon the gospel1 among the ,elders who went out to preach while ,i was there1 was ,benjamin ,burchell1 who came to ,utah as a young man from ,england1 to be a preacher1 if ,i recollect aright1 for the ,methodist ,episcopal church4 ,his field of labor was ,nephi1 ,juab county4 ,the superintendent of his church for this inter-mountain region gave him instructions1 one of which was3 ,don't read the ,book of ,mormon2 don't read any of the ',mormon' literature2 and the superintendent gave him a great deal of anti-',mormon' literature to read and study4 ,the young man loaded his double-barrelled gun1 so to speak1 with anti-',mormon' bullets1 and one of the men that he fired them at was the bishop of one of the wards in ,nephi2 and they didn't seem to hurt the bishop any4 ,he said in substance1 ,who filled you full of those lies8 ,the young man said3 ,they are not lies2 they are true4 ,the bishop replied3 ,how do you know they are true8 ,i have lived here all my life1 and ,i know that everything you have said is false4 ,the young man became interested4 ,he said1 ,bishop1 can ,i come down to your house and spend an evening with you8 ,come along and you can spend a dozen2 and he did spend an evening1 two or three evenings1 and bought the ,book of ,mormon and studied the gospel4 ,he afterwards resigned his salary received from the ,methodist ,episcopal church and went back to ,england--not for a salary--to preach the gospel1 but he went back without money and without price1 and at his own expense1 to proclaim the gospel of ,jesus ,christ which he had found to be true and which he had embraced4 ,one of the first men that he called on was the minister of the church that he belonged to before he came to ,utah4 ,the minister was delighted to meet him1 and welcomed him back home4 ,he had heard nothing of his conversion to ,mormonism4 ,the young man took some ,mormon tracts out of his pocket1 and he said in substance to the minister3 ,i wish you would tell me how to answer these claims of the ,latter-day ,saints4 ,he then asked a number of questions4 ,the minister commenced floundering around like a fish out of water1 and finally he turned1 and with a word that some people say is not profanity but only emphasis1 he shook his fist at the young man and said ,d--n you1 ,i believe you have joined that church4 ,the young man smiled and said ,yes4 ,then he jumped up1 and with some more emphasis he ordered him out of his house4 ,that is the way he answered the arguments of the young man4 ,i hold in my hand a letter written by a man who came to ,utah1 representing a church here2 and he was told that we ,latter-day ,saints1 commonly called ,mormons1 were practically a lot of heathens and barbarians4 ,he discovered we were an intelligent people2 that we were a ,god-fearing people2 that we had brotherly love one for another2 that we were industrious2 that according to the ,savior's rule--,by their fruits ye shall know them--that this was about the finest community he had ever lived in4 ,he lived in one of our southern counties4 ,afterwards he was transferred to one of our northern counties1 and he found that same state of affairs2 and finally he writes3 ,you will agree with me that from the position of a regularly ordained minister to the confession of truth and divinity of the gospel of ',mormonism' is a long road to travel4 ,it is because ,i believe that ,i have traveled that road that ,i want to write to you4 ,as ,i see it now1 this is my confession of faith4 ,i believe that the gospel of ,christ is taught in its purity by the ,church of ,jesus ,christ of ,latter-day ,saints4 ,i believe that ,joseph ,smith was a prophet of ,god1 and that his work is owned of ,god4 ,i believe in the restoration of the gospel and in the authority of the priesthood1 and ,i believe that the sects of modern ,christendom are the result of the spiritual darkness in the world4 ,i know from experience how impossible it is for the blind to lead the blind4 ,i remember when ,i was in ,europe--and ,i have quoted it many times--reading with a great deal of interest a book entitled1 ,the ,young ,man and the ,world1 written by ,senator ,beveridge4 ,in this book the senator said that during an entire summer vacation1 a man with good opportunities to get proper answers1 asked of a large number of ministers through the ,new ,england states1 three questions3 ,do you believe in ,god1 the ,father2 ,god a person1 ,god a definite and tangible intelligence--not a congeries of laws floating like a fog through the universe2 but ,god a person in whose image you were made8 ,don't argue2 don't explain2 but is your mind in a condition where you can answer yes or no8 ,not one minister answered1 ,yes4 ,the next question was3 ,do you believe that ,christ was the son of the living ,god1 sent by him to save the world8 ,i am not asking whether you believe that he was inspired in the sense that the great moral teachers are inspired--nobody has any difficulty about that4 ,but do you believe that ,christ was ,god's very ,son1 with a divinely appointed and definite mission1 dying on the cross and raised from the dead8 ,not one minister answered1 ,yes4 ,the third question was3 ,do you believe that when you die you will live again as a conscious intelligence1 knowing who you are and who other people are8 ,not a man answered ,yes4 ,he said that these ministers were particularly high-grade ministers4 ,many of them had gained renown for their piety and for their eloquence in proclaiming the gospel1 as they understood it1 and yet all of them were regretting the lack of interest in the gospel and the absence of audiences to listen to their preaching4 ,mr4 ,beveridge says3 ,how could such priests of ice warm the souls of men8 ,how could such apostles of interrogation convert a world8 ,there are no priests of interrogation among the ,latter-day ,saints4 ,the answer by every preacher of the gospel of ,jesus ,christ1 as restored through the ,prophet ,joseph ,smith1 to these questions1 down to our children that go to ,sabbath school1 is ,yes1 ,yes1 ,yes1 without a moment's hesitation4 ,there is no doubt2 there is no dubiety in the hearts of the ,latter-day ,saints4 ,we have1 behind the shadow of a doubt1 the absolute witness of the ,spirit that ,god lives1 that ,jesus is the ,christ1 that ,joseph ,smith was a prophet of the true and living ,god4 ,we know that the gifts and graces that belonged in the ancient church are to be found here today2 we know that the gift of tongues is enjoyed by the ,latter-day ,saints2 and these are some of the fruits of the gospel of ,jesus ,christ as enjoyed by the early ,saints4 ,o1 but-- says one1 ,i don't believe that you have any gift of tongues by the inspiration of the spirit of ,god4 ,as a boy1 ,i once took hold of the ends of an electric battery4 ,they had some handles for me to take hold of4 ,i was a child at that time4 ,i had never had any shock of electricity2 and the teacher who was manipulating it was not very well posted1 and he turned on altogether too strong a current1 and ,i could not let go4 ,i hopped around there and yelled ,turn it off1 turn it off6 ,well1 somebody who did not see1 or feel1 or know anything about electricity would say1 ,what is the matter with that fool1 with a couple of pieces of tin in his hand1 yelling ',turn it off8' ,could anybody tell me that ,i did not know1 as a boy in old ,brother ,doremus's school1 that ,i got a solid shock of electricity8 ,not a bit of it4 ,i know that ,i received the electric shock2 there is no doubt of it in my mind4 ,likewise1 ,i know that the gift of tongues is in this church4 ,why8 ,because when ,i was ruined financially1 working till midnight1 every night1 struggling to maintain my honor and my credit1 when ,i came home one morning--between #a and #b o'clock in the morning--my wife1 whose body now lies in the tomb1 was sitting up waiting for me1 and ,i chided her for it2 she turned and by the gift of tongues1 and having the interpretation thereof herself1 she gave me a wonderful and marvelous blessing1 every word of which has been fulfilled4 ,i knew well that she was giving me a blessing1 as ,i sat there and wept like a child1 while she was addressing me1 without understanding a single word that she said1 ,i know that ,god testified to me that she was giving me a blessing just as well as ,i know that ,i received the electric shock4 ,when ,i was a boy1 playing upon the floor in a ,relief society meeting1--my mother being the president of a ,relief society1 7,i grew up in the ,relief society1 and ,i have often said ,i am entitled to be a member1 a charter member almost7--in that meeting ,i heard ,grandma ,whitney sing some of the most beautiful songs ,i have ever listened to1 and they were all sung in an unknown tongue4 ,after she finished ,sister ,eliza ,r4 ,snow 7who wrote the famous ,mormon hymn1 ,o ,my ,father1 which refers to our heavenly mother7 gave a blessing to each of those present4 ,i heard ,president ,smith say that he attended a concert given by our ,tabernacle choir at the ,world's fair1 in ,chicago2 and one of the songs1 ,o ,my ,father1 was sung by ,robert ,c4 ,easton4 ,when it came to the part1 ,truth is reason1 truth eternal1 ,tells me ,i've a mother there1 a man sitting by1 said1 ,i have believed that all my life1 but ,i daren't say so4 ,well1 we dare say it and have said it all over the world4 ,the sister who1 by the inspiration of the ,spirit of ,god1 wrote that hymn1 gave to each one of the good sisters in that ,relief society meeting a blessing4 ,zina ,d4 ,young gave the interpretation4 ,after this blessing had been given to each of the good sisters1 ,sister ,snow turned to the child on the floor and gave him a blessing1 and ,aunt ,zina interpreted it1 and the blessing was a prediction that ,i should live to occupy the position that ,i am occupying here today as one of the leaders in the ,church of ,jesus ,christ of ,latter-day ,saints4 ,i am the recipient of a blessing predicted by the gift of tongues and fulfilled twenty years afterward4 ,i could go on and relate incident after incident of a like character4 ,in the letter of this man that ,i referred to1 there were some things that reminded me very much of the conversion of ,karl ,g4 ,maeser4 ,what led the former to more thoroughly investigate the gospel1 after leaving ,utah1 was the reading of an attack on the ,latter-day ,saints1 which threatened to destroy the whole structure2 and he was disappointed with the attack1 and so went on with his investigation4 ,when ,i was a youngster--,i am getting away from the ,maeser incident1 but ,i will return--when ,i was a youngster ,i read the book entitled ,nelson on ,infidelity4 ,mr4 ,nelson said that he was ready and willing to loan any young man any number of volumes in favor of the infidel idea1 if the young man would only read the other side2 and further he said in substance3 ,the reason ,i am ready and willing to loan any number of books on the infidel side1 is that if the young man will read the answer he will discover that his champion is lying2 and every time a man discovers that his leader is lying1 it weakens his faith in him even when he tells the truth4 ,during my three years' presidency of the ,european mission1 ,i never found any of the ministers over there who did not warn all their flock against the literature and the teachings of the ,latter-day ,saints2 yet ,i never warned our missionaries1 some of whom had never spoken in public before1 against the literature of any religion4 ,in all the world1 for eighty years1 the ministers of ,christendom have never converted even one poor1 down-trodden1 ignorant ,mormon missionary2 but we have captured ministers2 we have captured their divines and their leading men2 and ,wilford ,woodruff captured all their churches in one community and baptized sixteen hundred people1 including most of their ministers1 and all in eight months4 ,now1 coming back to ,karl ,g4 ,maeser1 who was a professor in a ,german university4 ,he had that discriminating1 analytical ,german mind which searches down to the bottom of things4 ,he read in an illustrated magazine that the ,mormons were barbarians1 an adulterous1 wicked lot of people2 that a man opposed to them1 took his life in his hands1 when he walked the streets of ,salt ,lake4 ,that reminds me of something else 7,i will have to leave ,maeser for a moment74 ,there was a gentleman who went to ,washington from ,utah and tried to get the seat in ,congress belonging to ,george ,q4 ,cannon4 ,he told all such stories1 and when he had finished all that ,brother ,cannon said was3 ,he is still alive4 ,if what that man has said were true1 we would have buried him long ago4 ,when ,ben ,butler visited ,salt ,lake ,city1 the anti-,mormons gave him a dinner 7five dollars a plate7 and told him that the ,mormons ought to be disfranchised2 and that all those who opposed them were taking their lives in their hands4 ,ben replied in substance3 ,i believe what you have said4 ,i have a remedy4 ,the ,united ,states is broad4 ,leave this d--d country and don't take any chances1 gentlemen1 of getting killed4 ,karl ,g4 ,maeser read a vicious attack upon the ,mormons--about the ,danites and the ,destroying ,angels1 and so on1 and so forth4 ,then he found in the same article that the ,mormons were industrious1 that they were frugal1 that there was not a poor-house in all the territory of ,utah1 that the fifteen per cent of ,gentile population1 among them then furnished eighty-five per cent of the criminals1 according to ,united ,states statistics1 compiled by the ,gentiles themselves4 ,he found that there was not one saloon in the entire territory of ,utah1 and that the only place where whiskey was sold was in ,salt ,lake ,city2 and1 to the disgrace of the city government1 they were selling it4 ,that is what he found on the temperance question4 ,he found that there was not a single house of ill fame in the whole of ,utah4 ,he found that the people went to bed at night with their front and back doors open4 ,after reading all this he said to himself3 ,the man who wrote this illustrated article for the magazine is a liar4 ,the fruits of honesty1 industry sobriety1 and brotherly love do not grow among immoral and wicked people1 so he sent for some tracts1 investigated the gospel and embraced it4 ,on the night of his baptism1 which occurred at midnight1 he looked up to heaven and said1 in substance3 ,o1 ,god1 if what ,i have done tonight meets with your approval1 and you will give to me the witness of the ,spirit that this gospel1 that ,i believe1 is in very deed the truth1 that ,i may know it1 ,i pledge my life1 if need be1 to its promulgation and its advancement4 ,from ,canada on the north to ,mexico on the south there are thousands1 yes1 tens of thousands1 who can bear witness that this pledge1 made at ,dresden1 ,germany1 at midnight1 was fulfilled by one of the most devoted1 unselfish1 and self-sacrificing mortals who ever embraced the gospel of ,christ4 ,for if any man ever gave his life1 his heart1 and his soul for the advancement of this cause1 ,karl ,g4 ,maeser did so4 ,god heard and answered that prayer4 ,walking from the river in which he was baptized1 ,karl ,g4 ,maeser was conversing upon the principles of the gospel with the late ,apostle ,franklin ,d4 ,richards1 and ,brother ,william ,budge was acting as interpreter4 ,brother ,richards talking in ,english and ,brother ,maeser in ,german4 ,they began their walk of several miles to return home4 ,after walking a short distance ,brother ,maeser announced to ,brother ,budge that he need not interpret the answers1 that he understood them4 ,immediately thereafter1 ,brother ,franklin said1 ,you need not interpret those questions2 ,i understand them4 ,they walked for miles1 ,franklin ,d4 ,richards answering questions in ,english1 ,karl ,g4 ,maeser asking them in ,german1 neither knowing the other's language1 yet by the inspiration of the ,spirit of ,god1 both understanding each other4 ,do you tell me that ,i don't know that we have the gift of tongues in the ,church of ,jesus ,christ of ,latter-day ,saints8 ,as well tell me that ,i do not know that ,i am standing here before you today4 ,i have this testimony from the lips of a man1 than whom no more honest1 no more upright1 no truer man ever drew the breath of life4 ,when these two men reached the bridge that spans the river ,elbe1 on their way into the city of ,dresden1 they were separated1 and when they reached the other side of the bridge ,brother ,maeser again began asking questions1 but ,brother ,richards could not then understand him1 nor could ,brother ,maeser understand anything further that was said in reply2 and they were obliged to revert to ,brother ,budge's interpretation4 ,then ,brother ,maeser turned to ,brother ,richards and said1 ,what does this mean1 we could understand each other for miles1 and now we can't understand8 ,brother ,maeser1 said ,apostle ,richards1 the ,lord has given to you a portion of the fruit of the gospel of ,jesus ,christ1 as restored in our day4 ,for some wise reason he has allowed you to enjoy one of the manifestations of the ,spirit accompanying the true gospel of ,christ4 ,brother ,maeser told me1 with tears rolling down his cheeks1 although it had been nearly #ej years since he had that manifestation1 that he realized that ,god had heard and answered his prayers4 ,at the close of the incident ,i have related1 ,brother ,maeser looked up again into heaven1 and he said3 ,o ,god1 my ,father in heaven1 ,i will fulfil my promise to give my life to this cause2 and he did it4 ,he became the grand old man1 educationally1 of the ,church of ,jesus ,christ of ,latter-day ,saints--a man without a thought of personal aggrandizement1 without a thought of seeking honor for himself1 personally1 but with only a desire to save souls1 to build up the kingdom of ,god1 and to promulgate this gospel at home and abroad4 ,i rejoice in the fact that in every land and in every clime1 wherever this gospel message has penetrated1 the fruits of the gospel have been enjoyed--the healing of the sick1 speaking in tongues1 the interpretation of tongues1 every gift and grace1 and every power that was ever enjoyed by the former-day ,saints1 are enjoyed by the ,latter-day ,saints4 ,i rejoice in knowing that ,i myself stand here today a living witness to the healing power of ,almighty ,god1 that is in the ,church of ,christ4 ,given up by eight doctors to die1 yet under the inspiration of the ,spirit of ,god1 the man who is now the prophet of ,god1 on the earth1 said as he blessed me that ,i should live1 and ,i do live1 notwithstanding the doctors said that blood poisoning in the third and last stage had set in1 in my case4 ,my family physician told me to send for my reporter1 and tell my last little story1 because ,i was doomed to die4 ,did ,i send for the reporter8 ,no4 ,perfect faith gave me to know ,i should live4 ,although my doctor told me ,i should die1 ,sister ,grant and ,i knew to the contrary4 ,she received a visit from my wife1 whose body lies in the tomb1 the same wife who enjoyed the gift of tongues and its interpretation4 ,after her death1 she came to my home1 before ,i was operated upon1 and told my wife no matter how seriously ill ,i was1 ,i should not die1 that ,i should live1 because my mission was not yet ended2 that ,i should yet lift up my voice in many lands1 and many climes1 proclaiming the restitution of the gospel to the earth4 ,so1 when the doctors said ,i must die1 ,sister ,grant and ,i had no dear1 because we knew better4 ,i asked how long ,i could live2 the doctors said1 not over three days4 ,at the end of three days1 ,i was better1 and they could not understand it4 ,so they had the poisonous pus from my body analysed again2 and lo and behold1 according to their verdict1 ,i ought to have been dead two days2 but ,i was getting better4 ,i was promised by the gift of tongues1 that ,i should lift up my voice in many lands and many climes1 proclaiming this gospel4 ,at the time of this operation1 ,i was promised by the visitation of my deceased wife that ,i should not die1 that my mission was not ended4 ,since then ,i have been in ,japan2 ,i have been in ,canada2 ,i have been in ,mexico2 ,i have preached from ,portland1 ,me41 to ,portland1 ,or42 from ,canada on the north to ,mexico on the south4 ,i have been over the ,british ,isles1 ,england1 ,ireland1 ,scotland1 ,wales--in ,scandinavia1 ,france1 ,germany1 ,italy and ,belgium1 proclaiming that ,god lives2 and yet1 according to the doctors1 ,i ought to have been dead4 ,i have thus seen fulfilled the promise made by that visitation of my wife1 that ,i should live and proclaim this gospel4 ,i know that ,god lives1 that ,jesus is the ,christ1 that ,joseph ,smith is his prophet1 and that ,mormonism1 so called by the world1 is indeed the gospel of life and salvation1 the gospel of ,jesus ,christ1 again restored to the earth4 ,god help us1 who have this testimony1 to live in conformity with its doctrines1 is my prayer1 in the name of our ,lord and ,master4 ,amen4 ,a ,busy ,life ,,chapter ,i4 ,,anson ,,call',s ,,birth ,,and ,,character--,,investigated ,,mormonism ,,to ,,disprove ,,it1 ,,and ,,became ,,converted--,,impediment ,,in ,,his ,,speech ,,cured ,,when ,,administered ,,to--,,an ,,anti-,,mormon ,,missourian--,,buy ,,farms ,,in ,,caldwell ,,county--,,the ,,prophet ,,visits ,,missouri--,,advises ,,abandonment ,,of ,,homes--,,mob ,,tries ,,to ,,prevent ,,their ,,removal--,,flee ,,by ,,night--,,adam-,,ondi-,,ahman ,,and ,,far ,,west ,,besieged4 ,anson ,call1 ,counselor to the ,president of the ,davis ,stake of ,zion1 who died ,august #cast11 #ahij1 was extensively known as a pioneer1 a wise counselor and successful man of affairs1 and to his intimates as a man of the strongest convictions and highest courage1 who would risk his life anytime for principle or in defense of his fellows4 ,his whole career from the time he embraced the ,gospel was so full of self-sacrifice for the cause of ,truth that a brief sketch of the principal events is well worthy of record in the ,faith ,promoting ,series4 ,he was born in the town of ,fletcher1 ,franklin ,county1 ,vermont1 ,may #ac1 #ahaj4 ,his ancestors for several generations1 had been conspicuous in the struggle for religious and political liberty1 and he probably inherited the strong traits of character that distinguished them4 ,when ,anson was seven years old his father's family removed to ,geauga1 now ,lake ,county1 ,ohio1 then a wild region which offered very few educational opportunities4 ,but1 while he had little chance during his childhood and youth for schooling his experience was favorable for the development of industry and self-reliance1 qualities that were strong characteristics in his later life4 ,he married when twenty-three years of age1 his wife1 ,mary ,flint1 being the daughter of a wealthy ,vermont farmer who had purchased a valuable farm in ,ohio and located his two daughters thereon with the intention of bequeathing the property to them1 but decided to disinherit them when his son-in-law1 ,anson ,call1 and they1 joined the ,mormons4 ,most of the ,call family were ,methodists1 but ,anson1 although he was a searcher after ,truth1 could not subscribe to that creed4 ,brigham ,young and other prominent ,elders occasionally preached the newly revealed ,gospel in the region where the ,call family lived1 and when ,anson found himself unable to cope with them in a discussion of religion he attributed his failure to his unfamiliarity with the ,bible4 ,he therefore began a critical study of the ,bible and ,book of ,mormon in the hope of controverting what they taught1 but with a different result to what he anticipated4 ,to his surprise if not regret his three years hard study for the purpose mentioned resulted in a conviction that ,mormonism was true4 ,he accordingly announced in a ,methodist meeting his intention of joining the ,mormons1 and started with his wife for a trip to ,kirtland1 then the gathering place of the ,saints1 where he was baptized by ,william ,smith1 brother of the prophet1 and confirmed by ,david ,whitmer1 one of the three witness to the ,book of ,mormon4 ,immediately afterwards he was administered to for an impediment in his speech1 and experienced relief1 and was promised that his speech should be natural and proper so long as he used his tongue for the advancement of truth4 ,he was also ordained an ,elder1 and on his return to his home preached the ,gospel to his old associates and neighbors4 ,about thirty persons in the region of his home1 mostly ,methodists1 joined the ,church as a result of the preaching1 his wife and his father's family being included in the number4 ,in ,march1 #ahch1 in company with his father and his brother ,harvey1 ,anson started to ,missouri1 whither some of the leading ,elders of the ,church had already gone4 ,they journeyed by steamboat part of the way1 and had for companions ,asahel ,smith1 uncle to the prophet1 and ,george ,gee and their wives4 ,while steaming up the ,missouri river they were accosted by a fellow passenger who remarked that he had heard there were some ,mormons on board the boat4 ,elder ,smith told him the rumor was correct1 and that he and his companions were ,mormons4 ,the stranger then inquired to what part they were going1 and was informed that ,far ,west was their destination4 ,i am sorry to see such a respectable looking company journeying to that place1 was the rejoinder4 ,being asked why he felt sorry1 he said3 ,because you will be driven from there in less than six months4 ,by whom was asked4 ,by the ,missourians1 gentlemen1 he replied1 and then added1 ,i presume you are not aware of the gentlemen you are talking to4 ,yes1 gentlemen1 was the response1 ,i am ,colonel ,wilson1 of ,jackson ,county4 ,i was one of the principal actors in driving the ,mormons from that country1 and ,i expect to be soon engaged in driving them from ,caldwell ,county4 ,he strongly advised them to stop in some other place and not to venture into ,caldwell ,county1 declaring if they did so they would certainly be butchered2 for ,mormonism must and shall be put down4 ,he read a letter to the brethren which he said he had just received from ,randerson ,newell4 ,he was reminded that it was made up of falsehoods concerning the ,saints in ,kirtland1 and replied ,true or false1 ,joe's career must and shall be stopped6 ,as he turned to depart after this last remark ,anson ,call said to him1 ,if you will wait a moment ,i will tell you the way it can be done1 for there is but one way4 ,what is that1 sir8 the ,missourian sharply demanded4 ,dethrone the ,almighty1 and ,joseph ,smith's career will be ended1 and never will it be until then4 ,the steamer stopped at ,jefferson ,city1 and ,anson was there introduced by ,colonel ,wilson to a dozen or so of the ,jackson ,county boys1 the notorious ,governor ,boggs among the number4 ,when informed that ,mr4 ,call was a ,mormon on his way to ,caldwell ,county1 they indulged in a sneering laugh4 ,the boat proceeded to ,jack's ,landing1 where the company left the river4 ,anson and his father traveled on foot from there to ,far ,west4 ,they afterwards purchased land in ,caldwell ,county upon which to establish homes1 and then the father returned to ,ohio1 to make arrangements for the removal to ,missouri4 ,in ,july1 #ahch1 ,anson started towards ,ohio and met his family journeying to ,missouri4 ,after resting and visiting a few days in ,far ,west he settled his family on his farm on ,grand river1 being accompanied by ,phinears ,h4 ,young1 ,john ,snider1 ,joel ,terry and others4 ,during the following ,september the ,saints living in that region were visited by the ,prophet ,joseph ,smith1 his brother ,hyrum and ,sidney ,rigdon4 ,on the sabbath after the public services1 which were attended by a number of ,missourians1 the ,prophet notified some of the ,brethren that he wished to see them by themselves to discuss matters of importance4 ,he quietly retired with about twelve of them to a corn field1 and advised them to abandon their homes and locate in ,far ,west or ,adam-ondi-,ahman1 as trouble and difficulties were about to overtake them1 and they ought to be where they could protect themselves and their families4 ,being asked if they could have time to gather their crops and dispose of their possessions1 he replied that they had better not sell their farms1 but he thought they would have time to save their crops4 ,the following day the neighbors assembled and discussed the counsel they had received4 ,they decided to try to save their crops1 and selected ,anson ,call to make a hurried trip through ,davis1 ,caldwell and ,ray counties to ascertain the temper of the ,missourians and learn if possible their plans in regard to the ,mormons1 and bring them word as quickly as possible1 so they could govern themselves accordingly4 ,anson made the trip and returned home without finding any indications of trouble while absent1 but found great excitement in the neighborhood of his home on his return4 ,the ,saints there had succeeded in securing their crops1 and as peace still continued had gone for a bee hunt for four days1 returning with wagons loaded down with honey4 ,encouraged by their immunity to still linger1 they went on a second bee hunt1 but had little success1 as the weather was stormy4 ,on returning home they found great excitement prevailing4 ,the mobocrats under the leadership of ,neil ,gillium were guarding every road to prevent the escape of the ,mormons1 and threatened to kill them if they attempted to leave4 ,they had attempted to kill ,phineas ,h4 ,young1 but he escaped by hiding in a bunch of corn stalks1 where he remained and was fed for four days by ,anson ,call4 ,becoming impatient1 the ,saints determined to make their way to ,adam-ondi-,ahman1 thirty miles distant1 in spite of the threats of the mob4 ,leaving their families1 a number of the men started with their teams loaded with household goods in the evening and succeeded in reaching ,adam-ondi-,ahman about daylight the following morning4 ,there they learned of the ,crooked ,river battle and of the election riot at ,gallatin4 ,they found also that many ,saints from the surrounding region had assembled at that place and at ,far ,west4 ,no help could be obtained1 but under cover of the next night the brethren from ,grand ,river returned to their families4 ,the mob there were terribly incensed at the brethren for having slipped away1 and especially at ,anson ,call for the part he had taken1 and indulged in all manner of threats4 ,however1 the next day quiet preparations were made to again leave4 ,after dark a four horse team was loaded with such few of their effects as they could take along1 and ,phineas ,h4 ,young and ,daniel ,jackson and their wives 7both women being sisters of ,oliver ,cowdery7 and ,anson ,call and his wife and her sister1 and the children of the three families 7seven in number7 also ,harvey ,call1 all crowded into the wagon1 while ,joel ,terry and his wife and child in a separate wagon drawn by a single horse accompanied them4 ,leaving the public road and taking a new route across the prairies1 they escaped the vigilance of the mob under cover of darkness and arrived in ,adam-ondi-,ahman at noon on the following day4 ,here they found a few of the people living in houses1 but far more under tents and a variety of other improvised shelters1 with very little to protect them from the elements4 ,anson selected the top of a fallen oak tree as a partial shelter for his family1 and then conveyed some corn to a horse mill and returned with some meal for their supper4 ,the ,saints were in fear that the mob might swoop down upon them at any moment1 and placed guards around the settlement to give warning of the first indication of danger4 ,about one o'clock in the night the alarm was sounded4 ,the mob is upon us6 ,the men rallied and prepared to offer the best defense they could1 while the women hastily dressed themselves and the children and awaited in terror they knew not what4 ,but to their surprise and relief the supposed mob proved to be a party of the brethren from ,far ,west4 ,the relief1 however1 was only temporary1 for word was brought that the ,saints in ,far ,west had been besieged and had capitulated to save bloodshed2 that the ,prophet ,joseph ,smith and others were in the hands of their enemies2 and that the ,saints in ,adam-ondi-,ahman were notified that they would be called upon to surrender about ten o'clock the following morning4 ,true to promise1 ,colonel ,parks with five hundred ,missourians under his command1 appeared before the town1 formed a hollow square and demanded that the ,saints march therein and surrender their arms and ammunition within an hour4 ,the brethren who had come from ,far ,west having brought word that it was the advice of the ,prophet ,joseph ,smith that the ,saints comply with the demands of the mob without resistance1 they did so1 but with grave misgivings4 ,after disarming them ,colonel ,parks notified the defenseless ,saints that he would allow them ten days in which to remove from the state1 and detailed #bjj of his men to remain as guards1 and to see that his order of eviction was complied with4 ,shortly afterward1 while ,anson ,call and his family were eating their breakfast in their camp in the fallen treetop1 two of these guards appeared before them and asked a number of questions4 ,the replies not suiting them1 they shocked and frightened the family by the abusive language they indulged in and leveled their guns at ,anson and threatened to shoot him1 which they evidently expected to frighten him1 and seemed chagrined that it did not have that effect4 ,,chapter ,,ii4 ,,suffering ,,from ,,cold ,,weather--,,anson ,,visits ,,elk ,,horn--,,captured ,,and ,,ill-,,treated ,,by ,a ,,mob--,,treats ,,the ,,mob ,,to ,,whiskey1 ,,and ,,escapes--,,tiresome ,,journey ,,to ,,far ,,west--,,visits ,,his ,,farm ,,contrary ,,to ,,counsel--,,finds ,,his ,,property ,,in ,,possession ,,of ,,mobocrats1 ,,who ,,assault ,,him--,,apostates ,,try ,,to ,,use ,,anson ,,to ,,discredit ,,the ,,prophet--,,anson',s ,,fidelity4 ,the second night after the surrender was extremely cold1 and many of the ,saints1 including the ,call family1 who were almost without protection from the elements1 suffered severely4 ,little ,moroni ,call had his fingers so badly frozen that the nails came off shortly afterwards as a consequence4 ,anson1 fearing the effect of further exposure of his family to such inclement weather1 applied to ,colonel ,parks for permission to go to ,far ,west1 and received the following permit from him3 ,i permit ,anson ,call to remove to ,far ,west and thence out of the ,state4 ,the guards appeared to take a fiendish delight in preying upon the defenseless ,saints4 ,they wantonly killed any of their animals they took a fancy to1 appropriated and used their horses1 and displayed their base natures by insulting women4 ,the people were not allowed to leave the settlement except to procure wood to burn2 and1 although they had been ordered to vacate the ,state1 they were not permitted to go in search of their horses or cattle to use on the journey4 ,after locating in ,far ,west1 ,anson started1 on the #bcrd of ,december1 #ahch1 to go to a farm near ,elk ,horn to make sale of two-thirds of thirty acres of corn which he had raised on shares4 ,he left without knowledge of the mob or guard1 and soon after he arrived at the farm he was taken prisoner by ten armed ,missourians who were accompanied by an old negro4 ,they took him into the back part of a store and ordered him to give up his weapons4 ,when told that he had none1 they thoroughly searched his person1 and1 finding that he was defenseless1 they threatened and abused him in a most vindictive manner4 ,he controlled his natural inclination to resent their indignities1 and submitted to their taunts and abuse1 with the result that they gradually grew bolder and apparently felt more safe in continuing it1 and after awhile stood their rifles up against the wall1 and1 seating themselves1 engaged in whittling with their bowie knives1 at the same time indulging in tantalizing remarks4 ,their hope evidently was to goad him beyond endurance1 when1 if he resisted1 they would have some excuse for executing summary vengeance upon him4 ,one of their number1 ,james ,ogle by name1 more bold than the rest1 repeatedly struck him in the face1 declaring that the ,mormons had wronged him1 and that this defenseless victim must now atone for it4 ,he also proposed to strip him and flog him on the bare back with hickory withes1 which proposition was not acted upon1 as no one else seemed to favor it4 ,he repeatedly dared ,anson to fight with him1 and even offered him a knife to defend himself with1 but all in vain2 ,anson bore it all in stolid silence1 mentally praying to the ,lord in the meantime to restrain his tormentors and not allow them to take his life4 ,after he had endured this treatment more than two hours1 ,ogle said ,it is getting near night1 and we must make a finish of this business1 whereupon ,anson was marched out into the street to the accompaniment of a threat that they would treat him as they said they had treated a ,mormon some time previously2 strip1 tie and flog him1 and leave him tied until morning4 ,with a view of doing so1 the old negro who accompanied the gang was sent off to procure a rope4 ,while awaiting his return ,anson was marched up and down the street between two files of his guard1 he appearing as unconcerned as possible1 but secretly watching for some opportunity to escape4 ,seeing a grocery keeper leaning out of a window watching him the thought occurred to him that he might treat his captors and thus gain an advantage4 ,calling out to the grocer he asked if he would sell him a bottle of whiskey1 and when it and a tumbler were passed out to him he invited the guard to have a drink at his expense1 suggesting that as it was ,christmas eve it was an appropriate time for so indulging4 ,the invitation was readily accepted and the fiery liquor was soon gurgling down their throats4 ,noticing that a thicket of hazel brush was within a few feet of where he stood1 he took advantage of the momentary diversion by dashing into it4 ,the excitement that immediately followed was intense4 ,the whiskey was forgotten in the hasty chase that ensued4 ,anson proceeded only a short distance into the thicket when he lay down1 and was overlooked by the maddened ,missourian who charged past him and on into the dense brush1 while he skirted around in the edge of the brush and made his way unseen towards ,far ,west4 ,the circumstances here narrated occurred in the town of ,fredricksburg1 in ,ray ,county1 a settlement just being established in the edge of the woods4 ,just before nightfall as he was trudging on towards ,far ,west1 he espied the house of a ,missourian whose wife was a member of the ,church1 and where he had preached a number of times the previous summer4 ,he hastened to the house and asked for entertainment1 explaining briefly the scenes he had just passed through4 ,the owner of the house feared to have him stay lest the mob might discover his presence and wreak vengeance upon the family4 ,anson offered to relieve the danger by traveling on1 but the good wife insisted upon his eating supper with the family anyway1 and afterwards made a bed for him on the kitchen floor with the understanding that if the dogs barked1 as they would be sure to do if the mob approached the house1 he would run through the open door out into a corn field1 and escape if possible to ,far ,west4 ,the night passed without any alarm being heard1 the kind wife getting up and preparing breakfast for ,anson before daylight4 ,after eating heartily he made his way to ,far ,west1 twenty miles distant1 where he arrived on ,christmas day1 #ahch4 ,he found his family feeling well and a hearty welcome and breakfast of parched corn awaiting him1 that being the best food available1 as the family had missed their turn at getting corn ground at the horse mill4 ,anson made an early call upon ,father ,joseph ,smith and ,brigham ,young for counsel as to whether he should go on horseback to the ,three-,forks of ,grand river to obtain some property he had left there to help make his family more comfortable therewith4 ,they advised him not to go1 as they feared the violence of the mob1 into whose hands he would be very likely to fall4 ,after thinking the matter over1 he still felt impelled by the necessities of his family to make the attempt1 notwithstanding the adverse counsel he had received4 ,he mounted his horse and started1 and after a perilous and tiresome journey arrived at his farm on ,new ,years day1 and found it in possession of a ,missourian named ,george ,washington ,o',neil1 one of the men from whom he had purchased the place1 and who had afterwards decided to take advantage of his misfortunes by robbing him of it4 ,he rode about two miles past his home to the house of a neighbor named ,day1 whose friendship he presumed upon as he had taken no part with the mob1 and as ,mrs4 ,day was a member of the church4 ,mrs4 ,day told him of what ,o',neil and ,culp1 the former owners of his farm1 had been doing1 and warned him that they were likely to kill him if they got a chance to do so4 ,while he was talking to ,mrs4 ,day the two enemies referred to entered the house and immediately began to threaten him1 and declared that they would just as soon kill him as if he were a dog1 and if they were to do so no one would blame them for it4 ,anson told them he intended to stand up for his rights as a white man and a citizen1 which phrase had a special significance then because of the prevalence of negro slavery in ,missouri1 but they answered him with jeers1 being evidently of the opinion that he had neither friends nor influence in the country4 ,many of the people in the neighborhood were in debt to ,anson for goods he had sold them on time1 but he became convinced from the talk of ,o',neil and ,culp that he would be powerless to collect the accounts1 and would only risk his life by trying to do so4 ,with the intention of quitting the region1 which fairly reeked with blood-thirsty anti-,mormonism1 he started towards his horse1 which was tied only about five rods distant4 ,as he did so he was followed by ,o',neil and struck over the head with a heavy hoop pole1 and almost felled to the ground4 ,his first impulse was to pick up something with which to defend himself1 but he could find nothing1 and the blows were repeated with such force that he would probably have been killed but for the fact that he wore a thick cap1 which doubtless eased the blows4 ,mrs4 ,day's interference appeared to save him from further violence at the time1 as his assailants immediately left4 ,she suggested that they had probably gone to get their guns and advised that he mount his horse and hurry along before they returned1 which he proceeded to do4 ,his head and face soon began to swell1 and he stopped at the first stream he came to and bathed the affected parts1 hoping if possible to hide from others the knowledge of his injuries1 as he felt compunction at having gone to his old home contrary to counsel4 ,he arrived in ,far ,west about #aa p4 m4 and immediately went to bed4 ,he awoke early in the morning and immediately arose1 but fell to the floor as soon as he tried to walk4 ,his wife1 alarmed at his appearance and weakness1 insisted upon knowing what was the matter with him1 and he had to tell her1 but plead with her to keep it from others and promised to remain in bed until he had recovered4 ,she gave him the most devoted attention and in a few days he was again about1 looking and feeling not much the worse for his severe treatment4 ,on the #aeth of ,january1 #ahci1 ,lyman ,cowdery1 the father of ,olive1 went to the home of ,anson ,call during his absence and told ,mrs4 ,call that he wished to see her husband at the home of ,w4 ,w4 ,phelps the following evening on some special business4 ,when evening came ,anson called there according to appointment and met ,mr4 ,cowdery1 ,david ,whitmer1 ,wm4 ,mc,clellin1 ,burr ,riggs and other apostates4 ,the ,prophet ,joseph ,smith at this time was incarcerated in ,liberty jail1 and1 taking advantage of his absence1 these apostates and other enemies were exerting themselves to find some pretext for accusing him of crime4 ,previous to this a quantity of merchandise belonging to the ,church while in transit from ,kirtland to ,missouri had mysteriously disappeared1 and with them some parcels of similar goods that were being transported by the same party for ,anson ,call4 ,the missing goods were subsequently found by the sheriff of ,caldwell ,county in the home of ,oliver ,cowdery and ,david ,whitmer1 when1 armed with a search warrant1 he went there to look for them4 ,to cast an aspersion against the character of the prophet in connection with these goods1 ,anson was asked by ,lyman ,cowdery to sign a confession that he had sworn falsely as to the identity of his goods4 ,as an inducement for him to do so1 they claimed to be able to prove that ,anson had perjured himself and was liable to a heavy penalty therefor4 ,these plotters1 however1 offered to secure his immunity if he would do as they wished4 ,lyman ,cowdery's proposition was3 ,if you will go with me to ,richmond to-morrow and state that you did this because ,joe told you to1 ,i will then settle the whole matter and let the blame rest where it belongs2 for ,joe is now where he will not lead anybody into difficulty again1 for justice will soon overtake him4 ,anson soon gave these traitorous conspirators to understand that they could not use him for any such foul purpose as to blacken the character of ,joseph ,smith or any other innocent man4 ,he had made no statement but what was true1 and he was ready to prove the truth of it by ,vincent ,knight who assisted him in selecting the goods at a store in ,ohio4 ,the efforts of these men1 who had formerly been trusted members of the ,church1 soon convinced ,anson that the ,prophet had many enemies who were determined to destroy him1 and among them none more bitterly vindictive than some who had formerly been bound to him by the most sacred fraternal ties1 but were now ready to betray him to his death4 ,,chapter ,,iii4 ,,removal ,,to ,,illinois--,a ,,perilous ,,journey--,,overtaken ,,by ,,the ,,prophet ,,while ,,escaping ,,from ,,missouri ,,prison--,,anson ,,and ,,wife ,,visit ,,in ,,ohio--,,locate ,,in ,,macedonia--,,remove ,,to ,,nauvoo--,,mission ,,to ,,ohio--,,prophet',s ,,vision ,,and ,,prediction ,,as ,,to ,,saints ,,locating ,,in ,,west--,,judge ,,thomas' ,,advice--,,service ,,as ,a ,,delegate4 ,not long after this a team animal which had been stolen from ,anson was found1 and this enabled him to remove his family and such of their effects as were left from the ,state1 and they were soon on their way to ,illinois4 ,the snow was about a foot deep and the weather extremely cold1 it being about the middle of ,february1 #ahci1 and not at all favorable for travel even if they had been well provided with clothing and bedding1 and in their destitute condition their suffering was intense4 ,the first night out their wagon tipped over in the creek and the next day they traversed a bleak prairie in a raging blizzard1 during which they almost perished4 ,the ,missourians1 though ordinarily generous and hospitable1 were so embittered against the ,saints that they furnished them no supplies or shelter unless paid well therefor1 and then they did so grudgingly1 and evinced no pity because of their suffering4 ,one day while traveling towards ,warsaw they were overtaken by ,joseph and ,hyrum ,smith1 who after more than six months imprisonment in ,missouri had made their escape and were on their way to ,illinois4 ,they were in such a hurry in consequence of their enemies pursuing them that they took only time for a few hasty words1 but inquired where ,anson expected to locate1 and promised to pay him a visit after they reached their destination4 ,this promise they faithfully kept1 in company with ,sidney ,rigdon and ,vincent ,knight4 ,they took dinner with the ,call family and spent much of the afternoon in relating the circumstances of their escape from ,missouri4 ,the prophet also told them that he had purchased a tract of land in ,illinois--the same upon which ,nauvoo was afterwards built--as a gathering place for the ,saints4 ,in ,october1 #ahci1 ,anson with his wife and youngest child made a trip into ,ohio to visit her mother1 leaving his two older children in the care of ,miss ,hannah ,flint1 ,mrs4 ,call's sister1 who had for some time shared the home of the ,call family4 ,they returned to ,illinois in the ,spring of #ahdj1 in company with ,chester ,loveland and ,jeremiah ,willey1 and soon afterwards ,anson and ,chester ,loveland rented a farm in ,carthage1 where they were fairly successful1 and interspersed their labors on the farm with preaching in the ,carthage court house4 ,in the ,spring of #ahda ,anson and his family removed to ,raymas1 afterwards called ,macedonia1 where he and others purchased an extensive tract of land1 upon which a stake of ,zion was later organized1 of which ,anson was one of the ,high ,councilors4 ,on the #acth of ,may1 #ahda1 ,anson's birthday1 his wife give birth to twin boys and afterwards had a long spell of sickness4 ,she was restored to health on being administered to4 ,in the spring of #ahdb ,anson moved his family into ,nauvoo1 having been counseled so to do by the leaders of the ,church4 ,the following ,september he went upon a mission to the state of ,ohio1 his companion being ,b4 ,f4 ,cummings4 ,while on the way to ,ohio they traveled and preached through the states of ,illinois and ,indiana1 and baptized forty persons4 ,they returned to their homes in ,nauvoo the last day of ,march1 #ahdb4 ,the winter had been unusually severe1 and even at that time the ,ohio1 ,illinois and ,missouri rivers were still frozen over1 so that teams could cross on the ice4 ,anson found his family well1 but rather destitute4 ,he spent that season raising a light crop of corn1 building a small brick house and quarrying stone for the ,temple4 ,on the #adth of ,july1 #ahdc1 ,anson and quite a number of the brethren crossed the ,mississippi river to the town of ,montrose to be present at the installment of the masonic lodge of the ,rising ,sun4 ,they assembled in a block school house in front of which there was ample shade1 and had a barrel of ice water to quench their thirst4 ,judge ,george ,j4 ,adams was the highest masonic authority in the state1 and had been sent there to organize the lodge4 ,he1 ,hyrum ,smith and ,john ,c4 ,bennett1 being high masons1 went into the house to perform certain ceremonies which the others were not entitled to witness4 ,the others1 ,joseph ,smith among them1 remained under the bowery4 ,the prophet1 as he was testing the cold water warned the brethren not to drink of it too freely1 and with the tumbler still in his hand prophesied that the ,saints would yet go to the ,rocky ,mountains and remarked that the water he had just drank of tasted much like the crystal streams that flowed down from the snowcapped mountains1 where their future home would be located4 ,anson1 in subsequently describing this incident1 said ,i had before seen him in vision1 and now saw1 while he was talking1 his countenance changed to white2 not the deadly white of a bloodless face1 but a living1 brilliant white4 ,he seemed absorbed in gazing at something at a great distance and said ,i am gazing at the valleys of the mountains4 ,then the prophet gave a vivid description of the scenery of the mountains and valleys just as many of those who listened to him afterwards learned to know them in reality4 ,pointing to ,shadrach ,roundy and others he said ,there are some men here who shall do a great work in that land4 ,pointing to ,brother ,call1 he said ,there is ,anson2 he shall go and shall assist in building cities from one end of the country to the other1 and you1 7seeming to include in the scope of his remarks many others7 shall perform as great a work as has been done by man1 so that the nations of the earth shall be astonished1 and many of them will be gathered in that land and assist in building cities and temples1 and ,israel shall be made to rejoice4 ,anson1 in speaking in the later years of his life of this occasion1 said3 ,it is impossible to represent in words this scene1 which is still vivid in my mind2 of the grandeur of ,joseph's appearance1 his beautiful descriptions of this land and his wonderful prophetic utterances as they emanated from the glorious inspirations that overshadowed him4 ,there was a force and power in his exclamations1 of which the following is but a faint echo4 ,oh6 the beauty of those snow-capped mountains6 ,the cool refreshing streams that are running down through those mountain gorges6 ,then gazing in another direction as if there was a change of locality1 ,oh6 the scenes that this people will pass through6 ,the dead that will lie between here and there6 ,then turning in another direction as if the scene had again changed3 ,oh6 the apostasy that will take place before my brethren reach that land6 ,but he continued1 ,the priesthood shall prevail over all its enemies1 triumph over the devil and be established upon the earth never more to be thrown down4 ,he then charged us with great force and power to be faithful in those things that had been and should be committed to our charge1 with the promise of all the blessings that the priesthood could bestow4 ,remember these things and treasure them up1 ,amen4 ,during the summer of #ahdc the building of the ,nauvoo ,temple progressed rapidly and the ,saints increased4 ,the non-,mormon residents of ,nauvoo and the surrounding region grew restless and uneasy1 and it was evident to the close observer that they were growing jealous and suspicious of the increasing numbers and influence of the ,mormons4 ,the intolerance with which the ,missourians had regarded the ,mormons had seemed to subside for awhile after they located in ,nauvoo1 but it had only been smoldering and was ready to burst out into a flame again upon the slightest provocation4 ,on ,sunday1 ,june #ad1 #ahdd1 when the ,saints were assembled at their usual place of meeting1 in a grove east of the ,temple1 ,judge ,thomas1 the ,circuit ,judge of the district1 drove up to the stand and asked for an opportunity of speaking with ,joseph ,smith4 ,the ,prophet went out and talked with him about fifteen minutes1 during which time the judge explained to him and advise him what to do4 ,joseph returned to the stand and began to speak4 ,just then a shower occurred1 and he asked the assembly whether they would remain and hear his discourse4 ,the response seemed to be universal3 ,we will tarry4 ,this was the last discourse delivered by the prophet on the ,sabbath4 ,during the meeting the prophet1 acting upon the suggestion of ,judge ,thomas1 appointed delegates to visit various precincts of the country to try to effect a settlement with the mob that was threatening to break out in open hostility against the ,saints4 ,anson ,call and ,david ,evans were appointed a committee to visit the precinct where ,colonel ,williams lived1 who was an influential leader of the mob4 ,after meeting they started upon this mission and that night lodged with ,father ,call1 five miles from ,warsaw4 ,they called at ,colonel ,williams2 house the following morning and learned that he had gone to ,adams ,county to raise the recruits to proceed against the ,mormons4 ,they learned from ,elder ,knox1 a ,campbelite preacher1 than an anti-,mormon committee had been organized in every precinct1 that the members of the committee in that precinct were ,colonel ,williams1 himself and a ,mr4 ,henderson4 ,in response to a desire expressed by the visitors to meet that committee1 and in the absence of ,colonel ,williams1 ,elder ,knox proffered to go and bring ,mr4 ,henderson to them4 ,while waiting for his return they were confronted with a mob of about fifty men who came swarming into the house4 ,among them was a lawyer from ,warsaw named ,stevenson4 ,addressing ,messrs4 ,evans and ,call1 he said1 ,gentlemen1 you are delegates from ,nauvoo1 ,i suppose4 ,being told that they were1 he said the people of ,warsaw were also expecting delegates1 and had decided to throw them into the ,mississippi and make fish bait of them when they appeared4 ,they added by way of advice to the local residents ,you can dispose of yours as you think proper4 ,being informed of the instruction of ,judge ,thomas to ,joseph ,smith1 he discredited it by saying he had talked with the judge before he went to ,nauvoo1 and intimated that he did not believe he had so advised2 but if he had he thought the judge ought also to be consigned to the ,mississippi river4 ,the mob became threatening1 but the ,campbelite preacher insisted that they must not disturb the ,mormons while they were doing business with them4 ,for further protection a guard was stationed around the house4 ,after an hour's discussion the assembly refused to act upon the proposition of the delegates in the absence of ,colonel ,williams4 ,his fellow committeemen guaranteed the safety of the delegates until they could mount their horses1 but no longer4 ,they were soon in their saddles and spurring their horses1 and reached a safe distance while the mob were preparing to pursue them4 ,brother ,call and ,evans arrived in ,nauvoo late in the evening of the #aeth of ,june and at #h o'clock the following morning they repaired to the ,mansion ,house to report to the ,prophet2 ,reynolds ,cahoon1 the doorkeeper1 however1 refused to grant them an interview with him1 saying that he was busy and did not wish to see any one4 ,anson after a few moments' stay succeeded in learning what room the ,prophet was in and boldly opened the door and walked in4 ,he was greeted in the most cordial manner by the ,prophet1 who hastened to inquire when he returned and where ,brother ,evans was4 ,then he insisted that ,brother ,evans be admitted1 and the two made their report1 which they were then requested to reduce to writing and make an affidavit of it before ,ebenezer ,robinson1 justice of the peace4 ,they were then requested to take the sworn statement to ,judge ,thomas whose court was in session at ,knoxville1 eighty miles distant4 ,two of the best horses had to be ordered for them to ride1 and before sunset they were on the way4 ,the prophet told them to make all possible haste and to get an interview with the judge if they had to follow him into court by holding on to his coat tail4 ,they left ,nauvoo in the evening about sunset4 ,it was raining and the roads were muddy and the streams high4 ,the following day they arrived at a stream that was very high and rapid1 and apparently very dangerous4 ,the nature of their errand admitted of no delay1 and they plunged in and after a hard struggle succeeded in reaching the opposite shore4 ,they arrived at ,k,noxville at #aj o'clock on the second day4 ,the court being in session1 they presented the letter to the sheriff with a request that he deliver it4 ,he did so1 and the judge opened and read it and put it in his pocket4 ,they chafed at the delay and tried to get the sheriff to intercede to have the judge write a reply1 but he told them they would have to wait till after intermission4 ,when the court adjourned for luncheon they followed the judge to the hotel and when he arose from the table they locked arms with him1 one on either side1 and told him they must have an answer to ,general ,smith's letter4 ,he said a written reply was not necessary2 it would be sufficient for them to report to him verbally1 that he was mistaken in regard to the instructions given him in ,nauvoo4 ,they1 however1 refused to be dismissed in that way1 and insisted upon a reply in writing1 and he reluctantly consented to write a short note4 ,he allowed the brethren to read it1 and as ,anson recalled it from memory in his later years it read about as follows3 ,general ,smith3 ,in perusing your letter ,i find that you were mistaken in the instructions that ,i gave you while at ,nauvoo1 and ,i know of no course for you to pursue to answer the requirements of the law1 but to suffer yourself to be taken by the officer holding the writ and go before the justice of the peace who issued the same and have an investigation of the matter4 ,it is the officer's duty to protect you2 this the law requires1 and ,i cannot as an officer of the law give you any different instructions4 ,,chapter ,,iv4 ,,judge ,,thomas' ,,willingness ,,to ,,sacrifice ,,the ,,prophet--,,vain ,,efforts ,,to ,,see ,,and ,,report ,,to ,,the ,,prophet--,,perfidy ,,of ,,reynolds ,,cahoon ,,and ,,alpheus ,,cutler--,,prophet',s ,,last ,,speech--,,news ,,of ,,the ,,martyrdom--,,its ,,effect--,,atrocities ,,of ,,mob4 ,the brethren protested strongly against the ,prophet surrendering himself to be taken to ,carthage1 as they believed the officers would rather take his life than protect it4 ,in vain they urged ,judge ,thomas to set a date when the ,prophet could be brought before his court for the investigation of any charges that might be brought against him4 ,he said he did not wish to interfere in any legal matters2 neither did he consider the matter under his jurisdiction4 ,in answer to what the brethren had said about the danger of his going to ,carthage1 the judge said this is nothing but your imagination1 and that will be better understood when tried4 ,and then he offered a suggestion that convinced the brethren that he had already decided in his own mind that the ,prophet should be sacrificed4 ,he said would it not be better for one or two men to be killed than for a whole community to be destroyed8 ,the response to this traitorous suggestion was1 ,no2 we would all prefer to die in defense of innocent citizens rather than for one of our number to be massacred by a ruthless mob2 and we will show you and all other men that we will protect one another in our rights4 ,the interview closed by the judge remarking that his visitors were very zealous1 and they declaring that they were not more zealous than determined4 ,they received the letter and made all possible haste to ,nauvoo1 arriving there at #aj o'clock on ,june #bj1 #ahdd4 ,on entering the ,mansion ,house they were met by ,alpheus ,cutler and ,reynolds ,cahoon1 who inquired as soon as they greeted them if they had a letter from ,judge ,thomas4 ,when told that they had1 they requested that it be given to them4 ,to this the brethren demurred1 and insisted upon seeing the ,prophet personally4 ,cahoon and ,cutler argued against the proposition and used all the powers of persuasion they could command to get possession of the letter2 then1 finding it in vain1 they suddenly left the room4 ,hardly had they done so when ,emma ,smith's nephew appeared and announced that ,mrs4 ,smith wished to see ,brothers ,call and ,evans1 and led them to her room4 ,as they approached she said ,you have a letter from ,judge ,thomas1 haven't you8 ,they replied ,yes1 and we want to see ,joseph4 ,she declared positively that they could not see him1 and was not moved from the decision when they rehearsed to her their reasons for wishing to see him4 ,she did not tell them he was not at home1 but her language rather implied that he was absent4 ,she plead hard for them to give her the letter to deliver to him1 and gave her solemn promise to so deliver it1 and then to arrange for them to have an interview with him4 ,they finally determined that if they could not see the ,prophet and warn him personally against being taken to ,carthage1 the next most important thing was to get the letter into his hands1 and they accordingly gave it to ,emma and she opened it and read it aloud in their presence and also within the hearing of the doorkeepers1 ,reynolds ,cahoon and ,alpheus ,cutler4 ,the brethren repeated to all three what ,judge ,thomas had said to them1 that they might be thoroughly impressed with the danger of the ,prophet giving himself up to be taken to ,carthage1 and requested also that the ,prophet be informed of all that they had heard4 ,had they known then what they afterwards learned--that ,joseph and ,hyrum ,smith were at that very time out of the ,state1 on the west side of the ,mississippi river1 with the intention of journeying westward and keeping out of the clutches of those who were seeking to deprive them of their liberty1 and if possible of their lives also1 they would have entered their solemn protest against their giving up that advantage and returning again to ,illinois in the face of the murderous hatred that was so generally manifested towards them4 ,anson was subsequently informed by ,dr4 ,willard ,richards that ,reynolds ,cahoon and ,alpheus ,cutler had crossed the river in a boat in the afternoon of the day that they had talked with ,anson ,call and ,david ,evans1 and while what ,general ,thomas had said to them1 as related by the brethren to them and to the ,prophet's wife1 must have been still fresh in their minds1 and induced ,joseph and ,hyrum ,smith to return to ,nauvoo and give themselves up to the officers who had a warrant for them 7the very thing that ,brothers ,call and ,evans had plead with them to warn the ,prophet against doing47 ,anson also learned from ,dr4 ,richards that the letter they had brought from ,judge ,thomas was not even delivered to the ,prophet4 ,anson never had the privilege of speaking to the ,prophet again1 but he saw him on the morning of the #bdth of ,june1 when he rode up to the ,nauvoo ,legion while on parade near the ,nauvoo ,mansion1 and said1 with all the feeling he could express1 ,boys1 ,i have come to bid you good by4 ,i am going to leave you for awhile4 ,you are my boys1 and ,i bless you in the name of ,israel's ,god4 ,be faithful and true1 and you shall have your reward4 ,farewell4 ,anson1 in speaking of it later in life1 said ,i little thought1 knowing his many deliverances from the hands of his enemies1 that it was the last time ,i should see him alive4 ,that night ,i went home to rest with my family1 about one-fourth of a mile east of the ,temple1 on ,brigham ,street4 ,on ,thursday1 the #beth1 ,i as usual paraded with the ,legion4 ,friday and ,saturday1 #bfth and #bgth1 attended to the same routine of business4 ,saturday night ,i was one of the ,temple guards4 ,sunday morning1 the #bhth1 ,i saw ,o4 ,p4 ,rockwell ride into the city at full speed1 with the sweat dripping from his horse1 shouting with his stentorious voice pitched in the highest notes of intensified sorrow and wrath3 ,joseph is killed6 ,joseph is killed6 ,they have killed him6 ,they have killed him6 ,the sorrow that overwhelmed the ,saints as that awful news spread throughout ,nauvoo1 as it did in a remarkably short time1 cannot be adequately described by tongue or pen4 ,even those who knew that he had been taken to ,carthage and were also aware of the murderous spirit that animated those who had been seeking to apprehend him1 and the threats they had indulged in1 were unprepared for the news1 for they had vainly hoped that he would be set free when an investigation of the charges brought against him had occurred1 or be enabled to escape as he had in the past4 ,they were all conscious of his innocence1 and felt that the ,lord would intercede in his behalf1 and not suffer his enemies to take his life2 and on learning that they had done so they were stunned--almost paralyzed4 ,few if any were more powerfully affected by the news than ,anson ,call4 ,by a strong effort he controlled his feelings and suppressed the inclination to seek personal vengeance1 but was deprived of the power to sleep1 and lost all desire to eat2 and besought the ,lord in earnest prayer to restrain him from doing anything that would be unwise or that would add to the trouble that already enveloped the ,saints4 ,when the bodies of the martyrs were brought into ,nauvoo he took his family to see them1 and they were strongly affected by the sight4 ,on the third night after the martyrdom ,anson had a dream or a vision in which he saw the ,prophet and heard him assure a congregation of ,saints that1 although dead1 he should still lead the kingdom1 the keys of which had been given to him1 and would be held by him forever4 ,this assurance proved a great comfort to ,anson1 and enabled him to comfort others4 ,very soon thereafter he went to ,carthage and was piloted around by the jailer4 ,he saw the blood from the ,prophet's veins upon the well curb1 and the hole through the panel door made by the bullet that killed ,hyrum1 as also the blood stain upon the floor where he fell1 which stain the jailer assured him he had been unable to erase4 ,anson told him he hoped he never would be able to wash it away1 but that it would remain as an everlasting testimony against his murderers4 ,he saw a number of those who were implicated in the murder1 most of whom he was personally acquainted with1 especially ,captain ,robert ,smith1 of the ,carthage ,greys1 the man who issued the writs against ,joseph and ,hyrum1 and to whom long before1 ,anson had borne testimony that ,joseph ,smith was a ,prophet of ,god1 and who had apparently never been able to look him in the face afterwards4 ,anson took an active and prominent part in the events that followed the martyrdom4 ,he was detailed as one of the one hundred men who were selected to assist the mob from burning houses and committing other depredations against the ,saints in the fall of #ahde4 ,he saw his father's house burn down1 and also the man who applied the torch to it4 ,he had obtained special permission from the sheriff to look after his father's property1 as he was living in the region where the mob was unusually active in committing outrages4 ,he arrived at his father's home about an hour after nightfall1 and saw the house burning1 and various articles of household goods scattered about1 but could see none of the family4 ,surmising that they were not very far away1 he went through a cornfield near the house1 calling for his father4 ,after awhile he heard a response ,anson1 is that you8 and1 following the direction of the voice met his father1 who felt so outraged that he was rendered desperate and disposed to resist4 ,on inquiring where his mother and sisters were1 the father led him out into the middle of the corn field1 where his aged mother was found resting upon a bed1 her daughters being elsewhere in hiding4 ,he learned that ten minutes before the torch was applied to the house the inmates were given a chance to flee therefrom1 and take such articles of clothing and bedding as the could carry in away in their arms4 ,while the mother and daughters were doing this the father was talking with ,mr4 ,stevenson1 the leader1 who was master of the masonic lodge at ,warsaw1 of which ,father ,call was warden4 ,the bigotry and malice that swayed the people were so strong that even the fraternity of the masonic order lost its power4 ,mr4 ,stevenson did not attempt to restrain the mob who were with him1 nor even dismount from his horse2 but1 turning from ,father ,call1 as if ashamed to look him in the face1 he said ,i have nothing against you as a man1 but you are a ,mormon1 and we must serve you all like4 ,he then called out to those who were with him1 ,gentlemen1 do your duty4 ,one man held a match1 and another a bundle of hay1 and at the expiration of the ten minutes the hay was placed in one corner of the house and set on fire4 ,the same procedure was followed at the homes of ,harvey ,call1 ,chester ,loveland and ,jeremiah ,willey1 all located in the same region1 the first mentioned being a brother and the latter two brothers-in-law of ,anson ,call4 ,these inoffensive and despoiled ,saints arrived in ,nauvoo about noon the following day4 ,,chapter ,v4 ,,preparations ,,for ,,abandonment ,,of ,,nauvoo--,,journey ,,westward--,,winter ,,near ,,indian ,,camp--,,test ,,of ,,fealty--,,westward ,,journey ,,temporarily ,,abandoned--,,employment ,,in ,,missouri--,,journey ,,to ,,utah--,,choice ,,of ,,home--,,mission ,,to ,,colonize ,,parowan--,,mission ,,to ,,colonize ,,fillmore--,,massacre ,,of ,,gunnison ,,party4 ,the winter of #ahde and #ahdf was chiefly spent by ,anson in the work of making wagons and otherwise preparing for the journey westward4 ,he received his blessings in the ,temple on the #ajth of ,december #ahde1 his wife at the time being unable to accompany him1 as she had given birth to a son five days before4 ,she1 however1 was likewise favored in the following spring4 ,anson succeeded in selling his home in ,nauvoo for about one-fourth its value1 and he and his family crossed the ,mississippi and started westward on the #aeth of ,june4 ,they crossed the ,des ,moines river at ,eddyville1 and there sorrowfully buried their youngest child1 a boy1 six months and twelve days old4 ,they overtook ,father ,call at ,pisgah and the body of the ,church at ,council ,bluffs1 and crossed the ,missouri river on the #gth of ,july4 ,on the #ith ,anson's young son1 ,moroni1 died and was buried the following day in a hickory bark coffin1 peeled from a tree by the father and grandfather4 ,although the season was then so late1 the question of journeying on as far as possible towards the ,rocky ,mountains was still being discussed4 ,brigham ,young and ,heber ,c4 ,kimball each organized a company of seventy-five wagons for this purpose4 ,anson was made captain of the first ten wagons of ,brigham ,young's company1 which included ,father ,call and his sons ,harvey and ,josiah4 ,george ,miller and ,james ,emmett had previously assumed to organize a company1 including fifty-two wagons1 and started westward to find a favorable place to winter4 ,anson and such of his command as were ready were advised by the council of the ,apostles to follow on after them1 and did so4 ,they left the ,elk ,horn river on the #bbnd of ,july1 #ahdf1 and travelled up the ,platte river to the ,pawnee missionary station1 where they overtook the ,miller and ,emmett ,company4 ,while camped on the west side of the ,loupe ,fork a message from the apostles at ,winter ,quarters was received1 advising that they proceed no farther westward that season1 but to find a good place and establish a camp for the winter4 ,they also advised that a council of twelve men be selected to direct the affairs of the camp1 and suggested the names of twelve men to so act4 ,the council was so organized1 ,george ,miller being president1 and considerable exploring done to find a suitable place to winter1 but without success4 ,they were invited by two ,ponca chiefs to winter with them on the ,missouri river1 and guaranteed protection1 plenty of feed for their animals1 and timber with which to build houses4 ,the invitation was accepted1 and nine days spent in journeying to the place4 ,they located on the west side of the mouth of the ,running ,water river1 and one hundred and twenty-five houses were erected in fort form4 ,nucanumpa1 the aged chief of the ,poncas1 was taken sick and sent for the brethren composing the council to come and have a talk with him4 ,he had killed and cooked his best dog and had a feast prepared1 which the council1 on being invited1 partook of1 and then proceeded to tell them that he had a friendly interest in the ,mormons and instructed the ,indians to treat them well1 and in return wished the ,mormons to see the he was properly buried1 and to erect at the head of his grave stone such as he had seen in ,st4 ,louis when he once visited that place1 with a proper inscription on it1 giving his name1 age and title4 ,the proposition was agreed to and carried out1 and the ,poncas proved to be good and peaceable neighbors4 ,the ,sioux1 however1 didn't feel bound by the agreement made with the ,poncas1 and stole some of the horses and cattle from the ,saints4 ,the principal feed for the animals consisted of rushes1 and the winter weather was severe1 and some of the remaining animals died as a consequence4 ,george ,miller developed an arrogant and rebellious spirit1 and was not disposed to submit to the direction of the ,apostles1 and as many of the people as could be influenced by him and ,james ,emmett also became disgruntled4 ,on the #bgth of ,february1 #ahdg1 ,apostles ,ezra ,t4 ,benson and ,erastus ,snow arrived at the camp with instructions from the ,apostles' quorum for the ,saints to return to ,winter ,quarters before journeying westward1 to replenish their teams and stock of provisions4 ,after delivering their message the ,apostles departed without waiting to see what action would be taken as to their requirement4 ,the members of the council assembled to consider and discuss the message1 and ,james ,emmett1 although not a member1 met with them1 by invitation of ,george ,miller4 ,george ,miller addressed the council1 saying that he did not consider that the ,apostles had any right to dictate the camp2 that he was their appointed leader1 and it was the duty of the camp to follow him into the wilderness1 in fulfillment of a special mission conferred upon him by the prophet ,joseph4 ,james ,emmett followed with a speech in the same strain4 ,the members of the council being then invited to express their views1 ,anson ,call1 who had been an active member from the time the council was organized1 then spoke4 ,he said the ,twelve ,apostles were the legitimate leaders of the ,saints1 and he intended to remain loyal to them and follow their counsel4 ,the other ten members of the council who followed him were unanimous in expressing the same sentiments4 ,bishop ,miller grew furious when he discovered that he was not supported by the council1 and gave vent to his feelings in a fiery but impotent speech4 ,a motion was then put and carried by the majority that the people be called together and allowed to decide by a vote whether they return to ,winter ,quarters or remain with ,miller and ,emmett4 ,this was done and preparations were immediately made for the journey1 with the result that on the #crd of ,april when the start was made only five or six wagons remained with ,miller and ,emmett4 ,george ,miller had formerly been a ,bishop and influential man in the ,church1 but was ambitious and impatient of restraint4 ,he looked for and found faults in those who were over him in the priesthood1 and was such a plausible talker that he soon obtained a following of kindred spirits4 ,when1 however1 he came out squarely in opposition to the counsel of the ,twelve ,apostles most of his followers saw his true character and abandoned him in time to save themselves from utter ruin4 ,on the #fth day of ,may1 #ahdg1 ,anson1 in company with his brother-in-law ,joseph ,holbrook1 moved to the ,pottawatomie lands on the east side of the ,missouri river and engaged in farming1 in which pursuit he had in the past been successful4 ,after plowing and seeding the ground the fields were left to the care of their wives and children and they sought work to provide their families with such necessaries as only money could buy1 and they engaged in cutting and hauling hay into ,st4 ,joseph1 and returned to their families in time to harvest the crop they had planted4 ,after making his family as comfortable as possible for the winter1 ,anson returned to ,st4 ,joseph1 this time accompanied by his brothers ,josiah and ,harvey and his brother-in-law ,chester ,loveland4 ,they obtained profitable employment and remained there until the following ,march when ,anson returned to his family and began making preparations for the journey to the mountains4 ,he removed his family from their temporary home on ,mosquito ,creek into ,winter ,quarters and on the #adth of ,june left ,winter ,quarters for the westward journey4 ,they crossed the ,elk ,horn on the #agth and then halted for ten days for the companies to assemble and organize4 ,seven hundred wagons were organized into two divisions4 ,in one of these ,anson was placed in charge of twenty wagons4 ,the company was thoroughly equipped for self-defense and had a remarkably successful journey1 arriving in ,salt ,lake ,city1 ,september #aith1 #ahdh4 ,three days later he removed his family ten miles northward1 and located in what was first known as ,north ,canyon ,ward1 afterwards ,bountiful4 ,when he arrived there he had one pig1 six chickens1 one pet sheep1 four oxen1 four cows and two calves--not a very great start towards stock-raising1 which he expected to be one of his pursuits4 ,if he had been superstitious1 he would probably have decided that the signs were against his engaging in the stock-raising business1 as the #fth day after he located his farm his pig died1 the #gth an ,indian killed his sheep and on the #hth his best ox drowned in a spring hole4 ,he was not disposed to give up or get discouraged1 but proved himself a man of resource1 and when his oxen were found to be insufficient for the work required of them he used cows to help draw the plow4 ,he only had five bushels of seed grain1 but he succeeded in raising two hundred bushels from that the first year1 besides quite a lot of corn2 and this notwithstanding the ravages of the crickets4 ,he showed good judgment in the selection of a farm2 it proved to be as good land as could be found in ,utah1 if not in the world4 ,in ,september1 #ahdi1 he was appointed to preside as ,bishop over the ,north ,canyon ward1 and that year raised one thousand bushels of grain4 ,in ,october1 #ahej1 he responded to a call to assist in colonizing ,little ,salt ,lake ,valley1 under the leadership of ,apostle ,george ,a4 ,smith4 ,those who went occupied one hundred wagons4 ,they were organized into two companies of fifty wagons each4 ,anson was made captain of the first fifty4 ,they left ,salt ,lake ,city on the #gth of ,december and camped on the present site of ,parowan1 ,iron ,county1 on the #abth of ,january1 #ahea4 ,on the #agth he was elected justice of the peace of the new colony4 ,he was active and energetic not only in the founding of ,parowan1 but also in exploring the surrounding region4 ,being directed so to do by the ,first ,presidency1 he returned to ,salt ,lake ,city in the spring of #ahea to raise more colonists for the settlement of ,iron ,county1 which he succeeded in doing1 and returned south with them the latter part of ,april4 ,before returning 7on the #aeth of ,april1 #ahea71 he enlarged his family and added to his responsibility by taking to himself a second wife 7,ann ,mariah ,bowen7 a native of ,new ,york ,state1 who was born ,january #crd1 #ahcd1 at ,bethany1 ,genesee ,co41 and took her with him to ,parowan4 ,the ,first ,presidency and other ,church officials visited ,parowan soon afterwards1 and called upon ,anson to return to ,salt ,lake ,city and raise a company of fifty families to colonize ,pauvant ,valley4 ,he accordingly returned north in ,june accompanied by his wife1 spent the summer in looking after his affairs in ,davis ,county1 and started southward with the new colony in ,october1 #ahea1 his wife ,mariah1 accompanying him4 ,before starting he was made president of the new colony by vote of the general conference1 and at a special session of the ,territorial ,legislature he was made probate judge of ,millard ,county1 which he was directed to organize4 ,he arrived on ,chalk ,creek1 ,pauvant ,valley1 ,november1 #acth1 #ahea4 ,he found ,brigham ,young1 ,orson ,pratt1 a surveyor and about fifty others in the valley ahead of him4 ,they had laid out a city and called it ,fillmore4 ,by act of the ,legislature it had been designated as the capital of the ,territory4 ,anson devoted his energies to the development of ,fillmore and the surrounding region1 with telling effect4 ,at the ,august election in #aheb ,anson was elected to represent ,millard ,county in the legislature4 ,on going north to attend the legislature he took with him an ,indian boy and girl whom he had purchased1 and left them with his family in ,davis ,county4 ,after attending the legislative session of #aheb-c in ,salt ,lake ,city he had great difficulty in returning to ,fillmore in ,february because of the deep snow4 ,he attended an adjourned session of the legislature in the following ,june and then spent some time with his family1 but had to hasten back to ,fillmore in ,july on account of ,indian troubles in the south4 ,about the #bnd of ,november1 #ahec1 he1 in company with eleven men1 gathered up and buried the remains of ,captain ,gunnison and party1 who had been massacred by ,indians on the ,sevier river about ten days previously4 ,having completed his mission to ,fillmore1 he left there on the #eth of ,march1 #ahed1 to return to his home in ,davis ,county4 ,on the #ahth of ,may1 #ahed1 accompanied by his wife ,mary and son ,chester1 he started south on a visiting tour with ,president ,brigham ,young and company of ,church officials4 ,on arriving at ,fillmore1 he remained there attending to some necessary business while the rest of the party journeyed farther south1 then returned with them to ,salt ,lake ,city4 ,,chapter ,,vi4 ,,call',s ,,fort ,,established--,,acts ,,as ,,deputy ,u4 ,s4 ,,marshal--,,mission ,,to ,,colonize ,,carson ,,valley--,,opposes ,,entrance ,,of ,,army--,,abandons ,,and ,,prepares ,,to ,,burn ,,home--,,the ,,move ,,south--,,brother ,,killed ,,by ,,indians--,,call',s ,,landing ,,established--,,his ,,last ,,days4 ,in the fall of #ahed1 ,anson's ability as a colonizer was again called into requisition4 ,he opened a large farm in ,box ,elder ,county at a place since known as ,call's ,fort1 one of the purposes being to find employment for poor ,saints brought from ,europe by the ,perpetual ,emigration ,fund ,company4 ,he sowed forty acres of grain1 and wintered a number of poor families there4 ,on ,new ,years ,day1 #ahee1 ,anson made a feast for all of his father's family4 ,it was the last gathering of the ,call family during the life of ,father ,call4 ,at the general conference in ,april1 #ahee1 ,anson was given another mission to go to ,fillmore and settle up the business connected with the building of the ,state ,house at that place1 which he accomplished in twelve days1 then returned home4 ,in ,may1 #ahee1 the ,united ,states ,marshal for the territory1 ,joseph ,l4 ,heywood1 appointed ,anson to act as his deputy1 and left the business connected with his office for him to care for while he went on a trip to ,california4 ,that same year the grasshoppers were very destructive1 and ,anson spent much time trying to prevent their ravages1 and suffered a heavy loss of crops as well4 ,brigham ,young having counseled ,anson to build a fort on his farm in ,box ,elder ,county for the protection of the settlers1 he constructed a stone wall1 enclosing a space of #abj feet square1 the wall being three feet thick and six feet high4 ,the notorious ,judge ,w4 ,w4 ,drummond having arrived in ,utah to hold court1 ,anson1 as ,marshal ,heywood's deputy1 escorted him to ,fillmore1 and made the necessary arrangements for the session of his court1 which was in session two weeks1 and adjourned in ,january1 #ahef4 ,on the #afth of ,march1 #ahef1 ,anson's mother died in ,bountiful1 aged sixty-five years4 ,at the general conference in ,april1 #ahef1 ,anson was again called upon a colonizing mission1 this time to ,carson ,valley1 then in ,western ,utah1 but now a part of ,nevada4 ,after a strenuous experience he arrived home from there ,october #acth1 #ahef4 ,his wife ,mariah also accompanied him on this mission1 and remained there after he returned2 in fact1 she did not return until the summer of #aheg1 arriving in ,utah soon after word was received of the approach of ,johnston's army4 ,on the #bhth of ,october he started in charge of thirteen teams furnished by ,north ,canyon ,ward to go to the relief of the hand-cart companies1 who1 while en route across the plains1 were then perishing in the snow4 ,they traveled to the ,rocky ,ridge1 three hundred miles from ,salt ,lake ,valley1 were absent thirty-three days1 and were successful in rescuing a large number who would otherwise doubtless have perished4 ,in ,february1 #aheg1 ,anson again exhibited his faith by taking two additional wives1 both of whom crossed the plains in hand-cart companies4 ,the first of these was ,margaretta ,clark1 of ,nottingham1 born ,may #bh1 #ahbh1 the other being ,emma ,summers1 born in ,worcester1 ,england1 ,august #ahbh4 ,in the latter part of #aheg1 as the army 7whose supposed purpose was to drive the ,mormons from their homes or exterminate them7 was nearing ,utah1 ,anson and his two sons went forth to assist in their people's defense4 ,anson and his son ,chester assisted in building fortifications in ,echo ,canyon1 and his son ,vasco was doing scout duty in the region of ,green ,river4 ,in the spring of #aheh1 when preparations were in progress for abandoning homes and burning them if necessary rather than have them possessed by the enemy1 ,anson stored four thousand pounds of flour at ,payson1 to be available for the support of his family1 and later removed his family to the shore of ,utah lake1 below ,provo4 ,before leaving their home they prepared it and their other buildings for burning at a moment's notice4 ,fortunately that extremity was never reached1 for the family returned and reoccupied their home on the #dth of ,july following4 ,about the #ast of ,october1 #aheh1 ,anson received a visit from his brother ,josiah1 whose home was at ,fillmore4 ,after a short stay he set out to return to his home1 accompanied by a friend named ,samuel ,brown4 ,when near ,chicken ,creek in ,juab ,county1 on their homeward journey1 they were ambushed by ,indians1 and both killed4 ,when their bodies were found on the #aeth of ,october they had been partially devoured by coyotes4 ,on ,april #i1 #ahfa1 ,anson showed his faith by complying with the ,bible rule requiring a man to marry and care for his brother's widow1 by taking to wife ,henrietta ,williams ,call1 whose husband was killed by ,indians as already mentioned4 ,she had six children and he reared them to maturity1 treating them as well as his own offspring4 ,at the general conference in ,october1 #ahfd1 ,anson1 in connection with others1 was given a mission to establish a colony near the ,colorado river4 ,the merchants of ,salt ,lake ,city had such difficulty in securing the necessary supply of merchandise1 either from the east or from ,california1 owing to the long distance it had to be hauled in wagons and the limited season during which the roads were passable1 that the idea occurred to some one that1 if shipped by steamboat up the ,colorado river to as high a point as possible and there stored in a warehouse the cost of freighting might be materially reduced4 ,it was thought too that immigrants might be brought to ,utah by the same route with advantage4 ,the merchants and others organized a company to build and own a warehouse on the ,colorado river1 and they employed ,anson to act as their agent in carrying into effect a part of this scheme4 ,he accordingly started about the #ast of ,november with a company to locate a road to the most suitable place on the ,colorado river1 and there build a landing and warehouse4 ,this he did to the satisfaction of those who employed him1 and returned home in ,march1 #ahfe4 ,after remaining home about one month he went again to ,call's ,landing on the ,colorado river1 accompanied by his wife ,mary1 and returned two and a half months later4 ,on the #dth of ,august1 #ahfg1 ,anson's eldest son1 ,anson ,vasco1 while returning from a mission to ,europe1 upon which he had been absent nearly three and a half years1 died at ,rock ,creek1 on the ,laramie ,plains1 four hundred and twenty-three miles east of ,salt ,lake4 ,he was a young man of great promise1 and his death was keenly felt by his family and friends4 ,on the #bhth of ,october1 #ahgj1 ,anson accompanied by his wife ,mary and sister-in-law1 ,mrs4 ,hannah ,holbrook1 started on a visit to their numerous relatives in ,ohio1 ,vermont and other places in the east1 from which they returned home in ,january1 #ahga4 ,in #ahgb ,anson accompanied the ,palestine party1 of which ,president ,george ,a4 ,smith was the leader1 to ,england1 and spent five months traveling in ,great ,britain and ,ireland4 ,when the ,davis ,county ,stake of ,zion was organized in #ahgg ,anson became counselor to ,president ,wm4 ,r4 ,smith1 his son ,chester succeeding him as ,bishop of ,bountiful1 formerly ,north ,canyon ,ward4 ,the later years of ,anson's life were spent in comparative peace and quietude1 largely on his farm in ,davis ,county1 where1 surrounded by his numerous family1 he set an example of thrift and industry4 ,but1 though relieved of those strenuous duties of pioneering that occupied so much of his time in earlier years1 his time was still to a very great extent devoted to laboring for the public welfare1 but chiefly in ,davis ,county1 where1 as a member of the ,stake presidency1 he was looked up to as a safe and reliable leader1 who was just as ready to sacrifice his own interests and devote his influence and energies to the public weal as he had been during his more vigorous days4 ,he retained the use of his faculties up to the last1 and died at eighty years of age1 honored and respected by all who knew him1 leaving to his numerous posterity an untarnished record of service and devotion to the cause of ,truth4 ,anson ,call depended upon no man for his knowledge of the truth of ,mormonism4 ,his confidence in the ,lord was supreme4 ,his loyalty to the ,church and the ,church leaders was unwavering4 ,his consecration to the service of the ,lord was without reservation1 and from the time he embraced ,mormonism up to the very day of his death he hesitated at no sacrifice required of him in that service4 ,many made greater pretensions to piety than he did1 but no man surpassed him in sincere devotion to the cause of ,god and in the modest practice of true religion as he understood it1 and this included strict honesty1 charity1 self-denial and unfeigned love4 ,he had a large family--six wives and twenty-three children in all1 though only eighteen grew to maturity and had families4 ,he was a kind and provident husband and father1 but exacting withal4 ,he had strict ideas of duty1 and expected every member of his household to conform thereto4 ,he was essentially a man of peace4 ,that he did not lack courage1 was amply proven by the personal risk he deliberately assumed in numerous instances throughout his life1 but he was wise enough to see that the ends so often sought by quareling and fighting might be more easily and effectively attained by peaceful methods1 and so he advocated and practiced peace and discountenanced strife and contention4 ,at no time in ,anson ,call's life was he really wealthy2 in fact1 he was generally financially strained in carrying out his numerous enterprises2 yet he never contented himself with simply providing for his own family2 but always sought to give employment to many others1 and not always because of their being profitable employes4 ,one of the most striking characteristics that ,anson ,call possessed was his ability to return good for evil4 ,if he was ever wronged by any one he attributed the act to the ignorance or prejudice of the individual1 and felt it to be his duty to impress that person with the friendliness of his motives1 and would go out of his way to do him a kindness4 ,he was full of charity1 and abhorred a disposition to harbor malice4 ,anson ,call never betrayed a trust4 ,when he gave his promise or conceived it to be his duty to do anything it was as good as done4 ,if he had adopted ,do it now as his motto he could scarcely have been more prompt in action throughout life4 ,he was the very embodiment of probity4 ,the ,church authorities understood his character1 and when they required anything of him they had the utmost confidence that he would not only do it promptly but well1 for it was his habit to give his very best service to whatever task he undertook4 ,he was not a theorist1 not given to much meditation2 but quick in deciding and instant in executing4 ,he was essentially a man who did things4 ,his energy was boundless2 his perseverance unlimited4 ,elder ,brown's ,experience ,,chapter ,i4 ,,frigid ,,trip ,,on ,,lonely ,,road--,,team ,,exhausted--,,agony ,,of ,,freezing--,,prayer ,,for ,,deliverance--,,friend ,,inspired ,,to ,,go ,,to ,,his ,,relief--,,sheep ,,herder ,,inspired ,,to ,,move ,,camp--,,effects ,,of ,,freezing ,,on ,,feet4 ,brother ,jedediah ,m4 ,brown1 of ,south ,bountiful1 is a man of great faith4 ,he feels that he has inherited the gift of faith1 for he does not remember the time when he did not possess it4 ,when he is in need of anything it is just as natural for him to appeal to the ,lord therefor as it is to work for it1 and he is an industrious man1 who never fails when possible to combine works with faith4 ,when he was twenty-three years old he was employed by a co-operative sheep company1 as superintendent of its three large sheep herds1 that ranged during the winter on the ,western ,utah desert4 ,one part of his duty was to furnish supplies to the several sheep camps1 and for this purpose he made occasional trips to the nearest settlements4 ,in the early part of ,january1 #ahhh1 he started1 with a horse team1 from one of the sheep camps1 to drive to ,grantsville1 forty miles distant4 ,his intention was to drive to the settlement the first day1 buy his supplies and rest his team during the next day1 and return to the sheep camp the third day1 and so informed the men at the sheep camp before starting4 ,having no load1 he drove through the first day without trouble1 and secured his load1 and1 fearing some change in the weather might occur that would hinder his return1 if he delayed starting1 he decided to start back the next morning4 ,the weather had been mild and thawing1 but soon after he started it became terribly cold1 and the wagon was so hard to pull1 because of the wheels breaking through the frozen crust1 that one of the horses gave out before the journey was half accomplished4 ,he had no matches with which to light a fire1 nor bedding with which to keep warm1 so he did not dare to camp4 ,his only hope was to keep on traveling4 ,the cold was so intense that he suffered the utmost agony1 even while trying to keep his blood in circulation by walking4 ,he realized that he was in danger of freezing to death1 and plead with the ,lord in earnest prayer to spare him from such a fate4 ,after awhile his pain from freezing grew less1 and a feeling of numbness and overpowering disposition to sleep took possession of him4 ,his ideas became confused2 he scarcely had will power enough left to urge his team along or exert himself to walk2 he frequently stumbled and fell to the ground1 and he had great difficulty in regaining his feet2 his power to resist the feeling of utter exhaustion and desire to sleep were almost gone4 ,just then a man on horseback appeared in sight1 and as he drew near he was recognized as ,charles ,a4 ,howard1 one of the men from the sheep camp4 ,it transpired that this man about the time in the morning when ,brother ,brown's situation became critical was very strongly impressed to start out to meet him1 although he had no reason to suppose that he would be on the road4 ,he tried to reason away the impression but could not1 then failed to act upon it for several hours1 until it became so strong that he could resist it no longer1 when he mounted a horse and started towards ,grantsville1 protected to the utmost from the intense cold4 ,his horse was fresh1 and he rode as rapidly as possible4 ,he had traveled almost if not quite fifteen miles without seeing a sign of a human being1 and was beginning to doubt the wisdom of what seemed to be his fruitless trip1 when he espied a team in the distance4 ,as he approached nearer he saw that it was his friend1 and that his movements were much like those of a drunken man1 staggering as he walked4 ,he hastened to him1 and found him so far gone that he could scarcely speak4 ,he realized that he would have to act quickly to save his life1 and that his only hope lay in taking him to the sheep camp1 for ,grantsville was so much farther away it would be useless to try to take him back there4 ,it was then almost sunset1 and growing more severely cold every minute4 ,he hastily unharnessed the exhausted horse1 saddled it and helped the suffering man to mount it2 then hitched his riding horse to the wagon in the place of it4 ,urging ,brother ,brown to ride as fast as possible1 he started driving the team towards the sheep camp4 ,the frozen man1 however1 couldn't even maintain his seat upon the horse and had to be placed in the wagon1 where is was with difficulty he was kept awake by his friend as he almost frantically drove the team4 ,they had not proceeded more than a mile and a half when1 to their surprise1 they came upon a sheep camp1 which had just located beside the road1 and which was nowhere in sight when young ,howard had passed the spot going eastward4 ,the herd belonged to ,bishop ,j4 ,w4 ,hess1 of ,farmington1 and one of his sons was in charge of it4 ,as he afterwards explained1 his camp had been located some distance away and he had no intention of moving it until the afternoon of that day1 when1 without any reason that he could offer1 and notwithstanding the cold weather1 he took a sudden notion to do so1 and acted upon it4 ,it was providential for ,brother ,brown that he had done so1 as he might not have survived the long ride to his own camp4 ,a good fire was burning in the stove in the camp wagon1 and the frozen man was immediately helped in beside it1 and with true western hospitality every comfort the camp afforded was placed at his disposal4 ,stimulants were immediately supplied him1 his boots were cut from his feet1 as they could not be otherwise removed1 and a proposition was made that his feet be thawed out in the oven of the stove1 but young ,howard knew that would be unwise1 so he sat up all night and kept them packed in snow4 ,in the afternoon of the following day ,brother ,brown was removed to his own camp1 where he had to remain and be cared for during the ensuing two weeks before he could stand it to ride home4 ,during all that time it was necessary to keep his feet elevated1 as the pain in them when hanging down was unbearable4 ,he really never recovered the use of his feet until ,spring1 as the skin peeled off them from his ankles to the ends of his toes1 and the nails also were shed4 ,he has always since regarded the help he received from ,brothers ,howard and ,hess as a direct answer to his prayer4 ,,chapter ,,ii4 ,,sent ,,on ,a ,,mission--,,stricken ,,with ,,chills ,,and ,,fever--,,president ,,of ,,mission ,,proffers ,,to ,,release ,,him--,,unwilling ,,to ,,be ,,released--,,instantly ,,healed ,,when ,,administered ,,to--,,twin ,,boys ,,healed ,,in ,,answer ,,to ,,elder ,,brown',s ,,prayer--,,elder ,,brown ,,has ,a ,,relapse--,,instantly ,,healed ,,when ,,again ,,administered ,,to--,,again ,,urged ,,to ,,accept ,,his ,,release--,,field ,,of ,,labor ,,changed--,,health ,,fails1 ,,and ,,he ,,is ,,sent ,,home--,,reproved ,,by ,,president ,,woodruff--,,victim ,,of ,a ,,street ,,car ,,accident--,,healed ,,in ,,answer ,,to ,,prayer4 ,in #ahie ,brother ,brown went on a mission to the ,southern ,states1 and labored chiefly in ,tennessee4 ,he suffered severely from chills and fever1 and ,elias ,s4 ,kimball1 president of the mission1 wanted to release him to return home4 ,he was ambitious1 however1 to remain the usual length of time1 and make a record as an efficient missionary1 and protested against being released4 ,he had faith that he would be healed if administered to1 and requested ,elder ,kimball to anoint his head with oil and pray for his recovery4 ,while ,elder ,kimball's hands were still upon his head he felt that he was completely healed1 and was apparently as free from the ailment afterwards as if he had never been affected by it4 ,he entered again upon his labors with zest1 enjoyed the spirit of his calling and felt very much encouraged over the prospects ahead of making converts and filling a successful mission4 ,about this time a man who was not a member of the ,church brought two boys to him--twins--about six years old1 who had been afflicted with fits almost from birth1 and requested him to administer to them4 ,he did so1 and they were immediately and permanently relieved of their ailment4 ,it created something of a sensation in the neighborhood1 where they were well known4 ,the family were encouraged to investigate the ,gospel1 did so deliberately and thoroughly1 became satisfied of its truth1 were baptized and remained faithful4 ,in his zeal to accomplish as much as possible1 ,elder ,brown over-exerted himself and had a relapse of chills and fever1 again applied to ,president ,elias ,s4 ,kimball1 was again administered to and was again healed4 ,president ,kimball again took up a labor with ,elder ,brown to induce him to accept his release1 telling him that according to his judgment he was not the kind of a man to stand the malarial climate of the south4 ,elder ,brown1 however1 had set his heart upon the work and still declined to accept a release4 ,in the hope that a change of his field of operations might result in benefit to ,elder ,brown1 ,president ,kimball sent him to labor in a new district for him--in ,west ,tennessee4 ,he gave the ,president of the ,conference special instruction to take an interest in ,elder ,brown1 and1 if possible1 guard against a recurrence of his ailment4 ,they were temporarily short of traveling ,elders in that conference1 but more were expected to arrive soon1 when it was suggested that he be released from acting as traveling ,elder1 and allowed to spend his time among the larger branches1 organizing ,sunday ,schools4 ,president ,kimball felt that he could be usefully employed in that line1 and be able to take better care of his health1 because of not being exposed to bad weather4 ,the result was that the new ,elders did not arrive when expected1 and ,elder ,brown was kept laboring as a traveling ,elder in that field five and a half months1 instead of only a couple of weeks1 as intended4 ,he was laboring without purse or scrip1 having agreed to so labor when he first arrived in the mission4 ,while he had faith enough to do so1 it involved hardships for which he was in no way fitted1 because of his impaired health4 ,he was determined not to give up1 and not to volunteer any information in regard to his health either to the conference president or to ,president ,kimball4 ,he grew so bad that he suffered constantly from chills and fever1 lost flesh until he was a mere shadow of his former self and for more than a week at a stretch was almost wholly without sleep4 ,his companion had urged him many times to make his condition known to the mission president1 but all in vain4 ,finally his companion became really alarmed about his case1 and posted a letter off himself to the mission president1 informing him of ,elder ,brown's condition4 ,brother ,brown seemed to be very slow about learning that the ,lord required the missionaries engaged in his ministry to use wisdom in the matter of conserving their health1 to avoid undue exposure1 the drinking of impure or contaminated water1 going heedlessly in the way of epidemics1 etc4 ,while the ,lord has the power to heal them1 and they1 being in ,his service1 should have a special claim upon ,his protection and blessing1 they should not knowingly tempt the ,lord4 ,the account given us in the ,bible of ,satan taking the ,savior up on to the pinnacle of the ,temple and proposing that he cast ,himself down1 may serve as an illustration of the principle under consideration4 ,of course1 the ,father had it in ,his power to save ,him1 but the injunction was1 ,thou shalt not tempt the ,lord thy ,god4 ,in the ordinary nature of things certain penalties follow the breaking of certain laws4 ,one of the laws of nature is that the human body is incapable of enduring an intense heat4 ,if it comes in contact with fire the flesh is burned1 and pain and suffering and perhaps dissolution follows4 ,of course1 the ,almighty is able to arrest the operation of a law of nature1 as ,he did in the case of the three ,hebrew children that the ,bible tells us of being cast into the fiery furnace1 but there was special reason for ,his doing so in their case4 ,they were in the line of their duty1 and it was because of their devotion to ,his cause that they were cast into the furnace1 and there was therefore more reason for the ,lord coming to their rescue than there would have been had they voluntarily gone into the fire1 and thus tempted the ,lord to suffer them to be destroyed4 ,every missionary owes it to himself1 to his family1 to the people among whom he is sent to labor and to the cause he represents1 to take good care of his health1 to consider differences in climate1 and food1 and water and altitude1 any or all of which may affect him injuriously unless great care be exercised on his part until he become acclimated or accustomed thereto4 ,elder ,brown had exhibited more zeal than wisdom in persisting in staying in the mission field after his ,president had advised him to go home1 in enduring hardships and privations that were enough to break the constitution of a thoroughly healthy man in his anxiety to make a record as a missionary4 ,of course his traveling without purse or scrip rendered him more subject to exposure than if he had been entirely master of the situation by having money in his pocket to pay for food and lodging and transportation whenever required4 ,but if he had been impressed with the fact that his health was of the first importance1 and that being out in a shower or even getting his feet wet1 and especially going to bed in his wet clothing meant endangering his health in the malarial region in which he traveled1 he would have been less reckless than he really was4 ,if he had realized that the natural effect of fasting--voluntary and involuntary--to which he had been subjected1 sometimes to an excessive degree1 was to weaken his body and render it less capable of withstanding disease and enduring hardship1 he might have curbed his enthusiasm1 and been more moderate in that respect4 ,as it was1 his zeal and enthusiasm really made him reckless1 and there is little doubt that he has suffered ever since as a result4 ,when ,president ,elias ,s4 ,kimball received the letter from ,elder ,brown's companion informing him of the real situation1 he sent peremptory orders for the release of the suffering missionary and had him forwarded home without delay4 ,on his arrival in ,salt ,lake ,city he called upon ,president ,woodruff and reported his labors in the mission field1 and was taken to task for his reckless disregard of the rules of health4 ,he was told that it was his positive duty to return home when the ,president of the mission wished to release him1 as he was the man whose privilege it was to know the will of the ,lord on the subject4 ,his persistence in remaining in the mission and continuing his labors under such unfavorable conditions after such ample warning as he had received of the danger1 was really tempting the ,lord4 ,the fact that the ,lord had mercifully healed him on two different occasions in the mission field1 did not even justify him in continuing the risk in the face of the mission president's protest4 ,how far his good intentions served as a palliation of his offense1 is a matter of conjecture4 ,that the ,lord has not cast him off is evident from the fact that he enjoys a goodly degree of ,his spirit4 ,he is a faithful laborer in the cause of ,god1 but his usefulness is very much impaired by his poor health4 ,brother ,brown has had many evidences since his return from his mission of the willingness of the ,lord to hear and answer his own prayers and the prayers of others in his behalf4 ,as an instance1 he mentions that he was accidentally thrown from a street car on the evening of ,january #cj1 #aiac4 ,he was unconscious when picked up1 and taken to a hospital1 and remained so until #aj o'clock the next morning1 when he rallied4 ,upon examination1 it was found that his nose had been broken1 three teeth knocked out1 four ribs fractured and a rupture produced4 ,three days afterwards1 while suffering from internal hemorrhage and in very great pain1 he called for ,brother ,william ,newell to administer to him4 ,he felt a change occur while the hands of the ,elder were upon his head and testifies that it was by the power of ,god that he was healed4 ,his improvement from that time was rapid1 and the readiness and completeness of his recovery surprised his friends and the doctors who knew the extent of his injuries4 ,remarkable ,patriarchal ,blessing ,,dr4 ,,gledhill',s ,,wife ,,operated ,,upon ,,repeatedly ,,for ,,internal ,,tumor--,,blessed ,,by ,a ,,patriarch--,,promised ,,that ,,she ,,should ,,recover ,,and ,,give ,,birth ,,to ,,more ,,children--,,scientific ,,opinions ,,upset ,,by ,,fulfillment ,,of ,,inspired ,,promise4 ,when we read the many miracles in healing that we find recorded in a few chapters in the ,bible1 one is apt to think that to-day these things are not found among us so generally now as anciently1 but on more mature thought1 one will discover that there are many more manifestations of ,god's healing power to-day on record than in the ,holy ,bible4 ,being a physician1 and dealing with that most sacred and miraculous thing we call life1 ,i often see the power of ,god made manifest through his authorized servants1 and ,i have personally taken part in this holy ordinance of the administration with oil1 where healing1 and other blessings have occurred4 ,young people sometimes fail to appreciate the priesthood of ,god4 ,they little realize the power and blessing that may come through this channel4 ,it is with a heart full of gratitude for ,his ,priesthood and the blessings that have come to me and mine from this channel1 and with a prayer in my heart that faith may be kindled in the heart of some reader1 that ,i write the following narrative of what ,i consider a modern miracle4 ,mrs4 ,gledhill1 my wife1 had been ill for one and a half years2 had been to two hospitals including the ,l4 ,d4 ,s4 ,hospital of ,salt ,lake ,city1 and had been examined by five of the best doctors in the ,state of ,utah and their advice and treatment faithfully followed1 but her symptoms gradually grew worse4 ,three times a slight operation had been performed with no improvement1 and it was decided that a major operation would be necessary4 ,just prior to this time ,president ,william ,h4 ,seegmiller had just been released from his duties as ,stake ,president of ,sevier ,stake1 an office which he held with honor and credit for thirty years1 and had just been appointed a patriarch in the ,church4 ,mrs4 ,gledhilll requested him to give her a patriarchal blessing1 and among other things he promised her1 first1 that she should become a well woman1 and second1 that she should become a mother in ,israel of additional children4 ,she was operated upon by two of the best known doctors in the ,state4 ,on opening the abdomen they found a large tumor of the uterus that was also attached to the bowel4 ,the doctors consulted each other and told me that the growth was probably the most fatal of all growths known in surgery to-day1 and that the only hope of her life would be by the removal of the uterus and surrounding tissue1 and even then her prospects for recovery would be very small4 ,then it was that the faith my parents and teachers had tried so hard to instill within me came to my rescue1 and ,i told the doctors that she would live and that ,i would under no circumstances consent to have her uterus removed and thus prevent the fulfillment of a prophecy uttered by the servant of ,god in a patriarchal blessing to my wife4 ,i was told that it would recur1 and that she would lose her life if ,i refused1 and that according to all the teachings of science and their own extended experience it would be very unwise to leave any part of the uterus4 ,i told them that ,i would trust the ,lord1 and in this ,i was not alone1 for ,mrs4 ,gledhill had made a special request1 before being operated on1 that whatever else was done1 not to allow anything that would make impossible the blessing that she had received1 and to which she clung with great faith4 ,the result was that about one-third of the uterus was removed in order to get the tumor4 ,the doctors gave us very little hope even of her recovering from the operation4 ,she slowly and gradually improved1 it seemed for five months1 when ,i discovered that the growth was recurring4 ,just prior to this ,i had received the following heart-rending news4 ,the pathologist of the ,l4 ,d4 ,s4 ,hospital1 who made the microscopical examination of the tumor which was removed1 wrote me in effect as follows3--,that he was sorry the whole uterus had not been removed1 and it was a question in his mind if it wouldn't be best even yet to have the complete removal of the uterus undertaken1 as this would give the only hope of recovery4 ,another doctor wrote me1 saying that all the authorities he had consulted said that these tumors are fatal1 no matter what is done4 ,i then turned to my text book on this subject and read as follows3 ,seventy-five per cent of all cases terminate fatally within six months4 ,then in italicized words it said ,cyncisiomia ,malignant is the most fatal of all known tumors1 that by an early and complete removal of the uterus before metastasis has taken place1 some cases1 it has been reported1 have been cured4 ,at times in the past ,i have felt that my troubles were great1 but now it seemed that all the powers of evil were arrayed against me4 ,i thought of how willingly my wife had undergone the hardships incident to going to school in the east with very limited means1 and of the many tender circumstances connected with our courtship and newly married life1 etc41 and now to think of her being taken from me1 was more than my failing heart could stand4 ,so that ,i humbled myself before ,god as ,i never had done before1 although all my life ,i had been a praying man4 ,but yet there was seen during all this time1 dimly and at the close of this trouble more clearly1 a silver lining to this great dark cloud4 ,it was the promise of ,president ,seegmiller4 ,i took these letters above quoted from with my text book and read them to ,president ,seegmiller and then asked him point blank if it was he who had made the promise1 or if it was from ,god4 ,i told him ,i must know immediately1 ,yes or ,no4 ,president ,seegmiller1 in his calm but positive way1 told me that when his hands were upon my wife's head with his eyes closed1 he saw her a well and perfect woman and said he1 ,i cannot take back what ,i have said1 for it is from ,god4 ,from this moment on there never was a moment that we have ever doubted or lost faith in this promise4 ,mrs4 ,gledhill was operated on again4 ,the tumor had recurred as had been predicted4 ,this time she refused to go to the hospital1 and ,i operated on her myself1 putting by trust in ,god4 ,i found several tumors had started1 and it was impossible to remove them all1 so ,i removed the large one in the scar of the previous operation and left the others on account of the great hemorrhage4 ,about two weeks after this operation1 inflammatory rheumatism set in1 and for eight long weeks we wrestled with the ,lord for her life2 nor were we alone1 for we summoned all available help4 ,her name was sent to all the temples for the prayer circle4 ,the ,primary ,stake ,board1 of which she was in the presidency1 prayed for her as a board and individually4 ,her kindergarten class in ,sunday ,school prayed for her and brought bouquets of flowers to her bed1 and for five weeks two ,elders called and petitioned the ,throne of ,grace in her behalf4 ,finally1 it seemed that the ,lord had tested us sufficiently2 she became better and finally well4 ,can my college professor tell me any more that there is no ,god8 ,can ,i doubt ,his power or the truth of ,his restored priesthood8 ,can ,i afford to dishonor that sacred priesthood8 ,no1 no more than ,i can say black is white4 ,men may try to explain this some other way1 but we know better1 and we thank ,god for every gift and blessing he has given us4 ,there is the second part of this blessing ,i want to tell you about4 ,mrs4 ,gledhill had been in good health for nearly three years1 and we became very anxious for the ,lord to grant us the second part of ,his promised blessing1 namely1 that additional children should come to our home4 ,we talked it over and decided that when we went to the temple to do work for the dead1 as it is our custom to do once each year1 that we would have ,mrs4 ,gledhill washed and annointed for this special blessing4 ,on arriving at the temple we told ,president ,anderson that we had great faith that the ,lord would keep ,his promise to us1 but we were impatient and wanted to intercede for the ,lord to grant us this blessing now4 ,when the sisters were washing and anointing ,mrs4 ,gledhill1 the spirit of the ,lord whispered to her an assurance of our desire1 and at the conclusion of this ,holy ordinance she came and told me of this assurance she had received1 and that she knew it was from ,god4 ,president ,anderson1 who was mouth in the prayer that was offered in her behalf1 at the conclusion of this ,holy ordinance promised her the desire of her heart4 ,after working in the temple two or three days for our dead1 we returned home4 ,in the required time from this temple blessing ,god gave us an eleven-pound son1 notwithstanding the predictions of the doctors to the contrary4 ,our hearts are so full of gratitude that we wish we could tell the whole world of this modern miracle4 ,on hearing of ,mrs4 ,gledhill's condition1 one of the doctors wrote and asked one to take her to a hospital to be confined1 and suggested that operative interference might be necessary4 ,but instead of doing this we called in the ,elders at this critical hour1 and our baby was born naturally4 ,no sooner had the birth occurred than ,i sent word to the doctors1 who1 by the way1 are very dear friends of mine1 and told them of our promised son4 ,in conclusion let me bear you my testimony that ,i know that ,god lives and that the divine plan of salvation1 called ,mormonism is the only plan that will bring genuine happiness and joy to the souls of men2 and that1 as far as ,i have been able to learn1 there is no known scientific fact that does not harmonize with this revealed gospel4 ,the longer ,i live1 and the more ,i study1 the more virtue ,i see in our gospel2 and for this testimony ,i thank ,god4 ,t4 ,r4 ,,gledhill1 ,m4 ,d4 ,richfield1 ,utah4 ,lambert ,reminiscence ,,applies ,,for ,,work ,,upon ,,nauvoo ,,temple--,,accepts ,,work ,,without ,,prospect ,,of ,,pay--,,his ,,hat ,,stoned--,,offered ,,work ,,by ,,lucifer1 ,,who ,,displays ,,abundance ,,of ,,gold--,,journey ,,westward--,,money ,,providentially ,,furnished ,,for ,,completion ,,of ,,wagon--,,money ,,for ,,medicine ,,obtained ,,in ,,like ,,mysterious ,,way--,,arrival ,,in ,,winter ,,quarters--,,ambition ,,to ,,go ,,west ,,with ,,pioneers--,,plan ,,foiled ,,by ,,indians ,,killing ,,team ,,animals--,,president ,,young',s ,,confidence--,,new ,,shoes ,,providentially ,,found--,,dislocated ,,arm ,,providentially ,,restored ,,to ,,use4 ,when ,charles ,lambert1 in the early part of #ahdd1 arrived in ,nauvoo1 fresh from his native land1 ,england1 he was full of zeal for his newly-found religion1 and willing to devote his life to the service of the ,lord4 ,he applied for work upon the ,temple1 showing credentials from master workmen1 under whom he had served in ,england1 that testified to his superiority as a mechanic4 ,he was informed that there was plenty of work for him to do1 but no pay4 ,the means that had been subscribed for the building of the ,temple had been exhausted4 ,many of the most skillful workmen had already found employment elsewhere1 and it looked as if the work would have to cease unless more funds could be collected4 ,he said he had come to ,nauvoo with a determination to help build the ,temple1 and he proposed to do so if he never received any pay4 ,he was accordingly set to work4 ,he had been a master workman or contractor for a long time before leaving ,england1 and consequently wore only good clothes2 in fact1 he had none suitable to wear while working as a tradesman4 ,he therefore appeared for work wearing a good suit of clothes and a high silk-finished hat4 ,he hung his hat up in the work-shop1 donned an improvised cap and apron and commenced work4 ,many of those employed upon the ,temple were ,americans who seemed to have a contempt for foreign mechanics1 and especially for dandies in that line1 and to show their contempt1 or else in a spirit of fun or mischief1 they threw spalls at the stove pipe hat as it hung in the shop until they cut it to pieces4 ,charles ,lambert wisely saw the folly of quareling with his fellows over this act of vandalism1 so he ignored it1 and treated the perpetrators of it as if it had not occurred4 ,his courteous and dignified conduct and lack of ostentation1 combined with his superiority as a workman soon overcame the prejudice arrayed against him and won the respect if not the admiration of his fellow workmen1 and he got along agreeably with them4 ,so many of the mechanics quit work from sheer necessity and went elsewhere to seek employment that the question of how and when the ,temple was ever to be completed became more of a problem every day4 ,charles ,lambert and one of his fellow mechanics 7,w4 ,w4 ,player7 who also was an ,englishman1 and a man of faith1 discussed this problem between themselves1 and voluntarily pledged themselves to continue at work until the ,temple was built whether they were paid for their services or not4 ,it is one thing1 however1 for a man to deny himself and quite another to deny a dependent wife and children the comforts or necessaries of life4 ,charles ,lambert had married during the first year of his residence in ,nauvoo and undertaken the support of two brothers and a sister of his wife1 who had recently been orphaned and were helpless4 ,he felt keenly his responsibility1 and wished for money as he never had done before4 ,while feeling thus he was passing along the street in ,nauvoo one day when he met a well-dressed1 genteel stranger who inquired if his name was ,charles ,lambert4 ,on being told that it was1 he said his name was ,higgins1 and that his home was in ,missouri4 ,with an ingratiating smile he said ,i have heard of your skill as a workman1 and want you to go to ,missouri and work for me4 ,you are not appreciated or properly paid here4 ,if you will quit the ,temple and go and work for me you can name your own price and you will be sure of your pay4 ,you see ,i have plenty of money with which to pay you4 ,suiting the action to the word1 he thrust his hand into his pocket1 and drew it out full of #aj4jj and #bj4jj gold pieces1 which he displayed in a tempting manner1 and urged him to accept his offer and not to submit any longer to the unfair treatment accorded him at the ,temple4 ,with a gesture of impatience called forth by the intimation of unfairness1 ,father ,lambert thanked the stranger for his offer1 but said he couldn't think of accepting it4 ,he said he had no complaint to make of his treatment at the ,temple1 and the price others would pay for work they wished done would not influence him in the matter1 as he intended to continue on at the ,temple from principle4 ,bidding the stranger ,good-day he turned to continue his walk along the street1 but almost immediately the query arose in his mind as to how the stranger knew his name1 and where he got his information from about his skill as a mechanic1 and turned to take a final look at the stranger1 when lo6 he was no-where to be seen4 ,he had disappeared as completely as if the ground had opened and swallowed him1 and yet he had not had time by any ordinary means of locomotion to get out of sight4 ,his opinion then was1 and remained so up to the day of his death1 that he had been talking with no other than ,satan1 the prince of tempters1 and though he had not yielded to his tempting offer he was vexed with himself for listening to him at all1 and especially to his insinuations about the ,temple management4 ,when ,father ,charles ,lambert left ,nauvoo he entered upon an order of life that was entirely new to him--that of a frontiersman4 ,in remaining in ,nauvoo until the work on the ,temple ceased he not only followed the counsel of the authorities of the ,church1 but fulfilled also the vow that he has personally made to do so regardless of compensation4 ,there was1 however1 an additional reason for his so doing4 ,while continuously employed upon the ,temple he had no opportunity of earning by work elsewhere the necessary equipment for migrating4 ,he had1 partly by his own labor at odd times and partly by help from others1 completed the wood work for a wagon but lacked the required iron to finish it1 or the necessary money with which to buy it4 ,preparation for the journey was thus effectually blocked for some time until the money was finally provided in a most miraculous manner1 as a direct answer to prayer4 ,he had been out in a rainstorm one day and had returned home drenched to the skin4 ,after changing his clothes he hung his wet trousers over a chair back before the fire to dry4 ,when he was about to resume the use of the same clothes again after they had become dry1 an ,english gold sovereign and fifteen cents in silver rolled out of the trousers pocket upon the floor1 notwithstanding the fact that he had previously had no money4 ,this was just the amount required for the purchase of the iron1 and the wagon was soon completed4 ,this was not the first time money to supply a dire necessity had been furnished the family in answer to prayer in a most mysterious manner4 ,once when ,charles ,j41 the first child in the family was taken violently ill and money was needed and prayed for with which to buy medicine the father entered the house feeling something that he had discovered in the waist-band of his trousers1 and which he remarked felt like money4 ,on having the waist-band ripped open the object was found to be twenty-five cents1 just the amount required for the medicine4 ,they would not use it1 however1 until they had inquired of the tailor who made the pants a short time previously if he had lost it1 but he said he could not possibly have accidently sewed the money in the waistband when making the pants1 for he had no money4 ,in both of these instances the money was accepted as a gift from the ,lord4 ,driving team1 and especially an ox team1 was a new experience for ,charles ,lambert2 but what he lacked in experience or tact he more than made up in kindness to his animals and willingness to sacrifice himself to save them4 ,the team consisted of a yoke of full grown oxen1 a yoke of young steers and a yoke of cows--all unbroken4 ,of course common produce demanded that the driver walk beside the team while the animals were wild or where the roads were bad1 as they frequently were1 but when the team became tractable and the roads were good a teamster inclined to self-indulgence would certainly have ridden4 ,not so1 however1 with ,charles ,lambert1 who so sympathized with his team animals that he refused to buy a whip when starting on the journey lest he might in a rash moment be tempted to abuse them4 ,in the exuberance of his young manhood he preferred to walk1 and it may be said that he practically if not literally walked the whole of the way from ,nauvoo to ,salt ,lake ,valley4 ,on arriving at ,winter ,quarters--the main camp of the migrating ,saints--it was late in ,november1 and he remained there personally only long enough to build a log cabin to shelter the family and then went to ,missouri to find work4 ,he was ambitious to journey westward with the pioneers1 and to earn all he could in the meantime4 ,he was doomed to disappointment1 however1 for the ,indians killed the team animals in the ,spring of #ahdg1 after the oxen had been brought through the winter in fine shape4 ,this was a serious set back1 but1 undismayed by this misfortune1 he returned to ,missouri1 taking his family with him1 to work for another outfit4 ,the mention of an incident that occurred at ,winter ,quarters will serve to illustrate the confidence the ,church leaders had in the subject of our sketch4 ,during a council meeting that was being held there some person reported that he had heard that ,charles ,lambert was living in ,missouri among non-,mormons and would probably lose the faith if indeed he had not already apostatized4 ,president ,brigham ,young replied immediately1 ,you need not worry about ,charles ,lambert4 ,i am willing to answer for all the sins he commits in ,missouri4 ,samuel ,turnbow1 who was present at the council and afterwards related the incident1 said he was so impressed with the remark of ,brigham ,young and so pleased with his rebuke to the retailer of gossip1 that he ever afterwards longed to become acquainted with ,charles ,lambert4 ,he not only did so at the earliest opportunity1 when they met in the ,salt ,lake ,valley1 but remained an ardent friend up to the time of his death4 ,president ,young's confidence was not misplaced4 ,charles ,lambert's loyalty to the ,church and its leaders never wavered4 ,it was on ,president ,young's advice that the ,lambert family returned to ,missouri again in the ,spring of #ahdh1 instead of migrating to ,utah that year1 as they intended1 and so it happened that they did not arrive in ,utah until the fall of #ahdi4 ,on the journey across the plains no member in the large company1 which included #ajj wagons1 too a more active part than did ,charles ,lambert4 ,when the company was organized he was appointed captain over ten wagons1 did his duty as such with zest and set an example to the whole company in the matter of early rising1 providing fuel1 caring for the animals1 etc4 ,while on the plains his shoes gave out and his feet became very sore4 ,early one morning while he and a companion named ,wm4 ,bateman were out rounding up the stock and the grass was hurting his feet badly1 he said as he hobbled along1 ,i do wish the ,lord would send me a pair of shoes4 ,they had not proceeded much farther when he noticed some dark looking object protruding above the grass a short distance ahead4 ,pointing it out to his companion1 he remarked that one of the animals must have lost his bell1 and walked along intending to recover it4 ,imagine his surprise when he discovered as he approached the object that it was not a bell but a pair of new shoes1 looking as fresh as if they had just come from the shelf of a store4 ,the sole of one was sunk into the top of the other1 so that they would occupy as little space as possible--the shape in which stoga shoes were kept in pairs in a shoe store in that age1 before it became the vogue to keep them in paste board boxes4 ,the place in which they were found was so far from a traveled road as to render it highly improbable that they had fallen there from a passing wagon1 nor indeed was there any wagon tracts visible in the vicinity of the place4 ,no time was lost in speculation as to how the shoes happened to be there1 but ,father ,lambert jumped to the conclusion that they were there for his special benefit1 and exclaimed1 ,the ,lord has sent me some shoes6 ,his companion1 however1 put in a counter claim by saying1 ,one shoe is mine1 for ,i helped find them6 ,but the shoes proved to be entirely too small for him to wear1 while they fit ,father ,lambert as if they had been made for him4 ,the result was that he retained the undisputed possession of them4 ,early life in ,salt ,lake ,valley was exceptionally serious4 ,hard work and long hours were the portion of every one who was able and willing to work1 and ,charles ,lambert was unusually able and more than willing to do his full share4 ,his robust constitution1 which for a long time seemed able to withstand anything1 in time yielded to the unusual strain1 the severe privations and the frequent hardships and exposure to which he was subjected4 ,he contracted inflammatory rheumatism1 which frequently affected his eyes and sometimes rendered him almost completely blind1 and actually drew his shoulder out of joint1 so that for a period of several months he was unable to use his right arm even to dress himself4 ,he was examined by surgeons while thus crippled1 who were unanimous in declaring that the shoulder was dislocated1 and in urging him to have it set2 but he absolutely maintained that he had done nothing to displace the joint1 that the ,lord knew better than man the nature and cause of his trouble and that he would trust in the ,lord to cure him4 ,it may be interesting here to relate how he again obtained the use of his arm4 ,a man by the name of ,gallup at that time1 7about the year #ahec7 resided in the #gth ward1 where also was the home of the ,lambert family4 ,this man though he had a membership in the ,church was a rank apostate at heat1 and quite active in advocating the doctrines of ,gladden ,bishop1 a notorious dissenter from the ,church1 and maligning the ,church ,authorities4 ,gallup held the office of school trustee in the ward1 7an office which in those days was usually filled by appointment of the ,bishop or election in a ,church meeting and not by vote of the tax payers as in later times7 and this afforded him some prestige in circulating among the people his apostate principles4 ,father ,lambert protested to the ward bishopric against such a man being retained as school trustee4 ,as a result1 a meeting of the ,priesthood of the ward was appointed by the ,bishop to consider the matter4 ,when the meeting opened ,gallup was informed that his fealty to the ,church had been questioned1 and was asked to state his feelings4 ,he arose and boldly declared his unbelief in the doctrines of the ,church1 and then proceeded to say that ,joseph ,smith was a wicked and adulterous man2 he had associated with drunkards1 his lot was cast with the hypocrite and unbeliever and he had gone to hell4 ,the assembly listened with astonishment almost with stupefaction to the man's utterances1 without apparently any thought of resenting his slanderous imputations1 with the exception of one man4 ,charles ,lambert was seated in the opposite side of the room1 and a number of benches intervened between him and ,gallup1 but springing to his feet he leaped over the benches and rushed towards ,gallup1 crying out as he did so1 ,i will send you to hell1 and raising his right arm1 that he had never been able to use for months1 was about to deal him a blow with his clenched fist1 when ,gallup dodged backward to escape from him1 and others seized his belligerent assailant to prevent a collision2 at the same time a chorus of voices cried out in surprise1 ,brother ,lambert has recovered the use of his arm6 ,the meeting ended by ,gallup bein deprived of office and also fellowship in the ,church by vote of the assembly1 and ,charles ,lambert returned home rejoicing in the use of his arm1 which was now free from pain2 and ,mother ,lambert wept for joy when she met him at the door and saw him swinging his arm high above his head and heard him declare it was as good as ever4 ,though a fiery-tempered man1 and hasty to act in the defense of his friends or his principles1 he was essentially a man of peace1 and his life was an object lesson before his family of patient endurance of bodily ills1 perseverance in the midst of obstacles and unwavering fidelity to his religion4 ,courage is not always best displayed in fighting2 generosity not always in ostentations giving2 zeal not always in outward show of piety4 ,he had all of these and many other good qualities1 but not for public parade4 ,he never shrank from duty however great the danger or exacting the bodily exertion involved4 ,the cry of distress never appealed to him in vain2 the needy never had to ask him for aid1 for he sought them out and quickly and quietly gave them freely of the best he had4 ,a ,timely ,warning ,,visit ,,to ,a ,,volcano--,,madam ,,pele',s ,,hair--,,narrow ,,escape ,,from ,,falling ,,into ,a ,,volcano4 ,two ,mormon ,elders--missionaries on the ,sandwich ,islands--once had occasion to visit that great natural wonder1 the ,kilauea volcano on the island of ,hawaii1 which is the largest island of the group4 ,the ,kilauea is #d1jjj feet above sea-level and is on the side of a mountain1 which rises #aj1jjj feet higher4 ,on the top of this mountain is the master volcano of the ,pacific4 ,at the time of the visit mentioned the ,kilauea activity was confined to an immense cavity in the center of the crater valley1 which is three miles in diameter and sunken two hundred feet below the surface1 with black walls surrounding it which could only be descended with the utmost caution4 ,while traversing this black surface1 to reach the living lake of molten lava the visitor is liable to break through a blister and imagine he is about to make an involuntary descent into the fiery liquid below until he grasps the surface with his hands and obtains a firmer footing4 ,on reaching the lake he looks downward two hundred feet upon a restless moving mass of red hot lava1 surging against the rocky sides with such force as to throw masses of lava into the air1 there to be caught by heavy gusts of wind and spun out into threads that bear some resemblance to a woman's hair4 ,indeed it is called ,madam ,pele's hair1 that is1 the hair of ,pele1 the fabled goddess of the volcano4 ,on the occasion mentioned curiosity and ambition led the two ,elders to walk out to the very edge of the crater in order to look down more directly upon the fantastic display of the red hot mass4 ,one of them even ventured to stand upon a projecting point of rock1 veneered over with black and glossy lava1 from which vantage point he watched the changes constantly occurring upon the surface of the crater4 ,the glaring red lava sometimes cools very rapidly1 and the surface of the crater may change in appearance within a few minutes from a brilliant red to a glossy black4 ,then within a few minutes a strip of red may appear across the surface1 as if it were furrow plowed by some mighty genii1 and then extending from this line1 as if by magic1 the black surface caves in or is overflowed by the fiery liquid below until the whole lake is again an active pulsating mass of red molten lava4 ,as the beholder views this impressive spectacle he is apt to yield to a feeling of fascination1 until he contemplates the ,power that controls the mighty forces of nature of which that before him is only a slight exhibition1 when a feeling of awe and sense of his own insignificance overwhelms him4 ,he realizes how utterly impotent he would be if left to contend with such forces1 and is impressed with the incomparable majesty and greatness of that ,being who controls1 operates and holds in check the forces of nature1 and feels like exclaiming as one of old ,what is man1 that thou art mindful of him8 ,while the two ,elders stood upon the brink of the volcano absorbed in thought a sudden feeling came over the one who occupied the position upon the projecting rock that he remove therefrom1 and he immediately acted upon it by walking back to where his companion stood1 a few feet distant4 ,he had scarcely vacated the projecting point when it split off from the mainland and dropped into the seething mass below4 ,an instant's delay in acting upon the admonition that came to him would have meant certain death in a most shocking form4 ,the volcano no longer had any attraction for him2 on the contrary1 he felt impelled to hurry away from the scene2 he did so with a fervent feeling of gratitude to the ,lord for the presence of the monitor that prompted him in time to enable him to escape from the horrible death that menaced him4 ,h4 ,h4 ,c4 ,one of ,nature's ,gentlemen ,,fine ,,specimen ,,of ,,maori--,,effect ,,of ,,the ,,gospel ,,upon ,,him--,,his ,,excellent ,,family4 ,piripi 7,philip in ,english7 ,te ,maari1 the subject of this sketch1 was one of the first ,maoris to embrace the ,gospel in ,new ,zealand1 when the ,elders opened up the work there in #ahhb4 ,truly ,philip was one of nature's noblemen4 ,he stood six-foot-one in his stockings2 was as straight as an arrow2 was handsome and1 before his death in #ahig1 he became almost white2 his hair and beard were as white as snow and always kept neatly trimmed4 ,he had a very stately walk1 and on seeing him approach one would intuitively stand erect and throw his shoulders back4 ,his face wore a smile that captivated and drew men and children alike to him4 ,he was a leader among men1 not alone among his own people1 but among ,europeans1 with whom he mingled and had dealings2 all learned to know his worth and that he was a man far above the average in knowledge and goodness4 ,he was chosen by the ,english government and by his own people to represent the ,maoris in the ,colonial ,government4 ,he also held many other positions of honor and trust among his people and the whites4 ,he was possessed of considerable wealth1 and owned a city and a country home1 where he entertained many people1 sometimes members of the nobility1 who were on business for the ,government4 ,a most praiseworthy fact is that the poorest of the poor were just as welcome under his roof as the wealthy were4 ,all were treated alike4 ,his home life was simple4 ,he was most devoted to his wife and children4 ,he loved to take them to his country home and spend his spare time with them in the woods1 the fields and in the mountains1 where all nature smiled on them4 ,he felt that he could get closer to his boys and girls there and teach them the lesson of life more effectually than in the city1 where he was kept so busy with affairs of the ,government and native officials4 ,he had seven sons and two daughters4 ,at the death of his beloved wife he mourned full seventy days--an old ,israelitish custom4 ,at the opening of the ,gospel in ,maoridom1 in #ahhb1 this man had never heard of ,mormonism4 ,he was surrounded by worldly friends--both white and native--and possessed of wealth and lands4 ,with these surroundings followed banqueting1 games1 and ,english horse races4 ,he owned several very fine race horses4 ,with all these temptations he lived a good and pure life4 ,he however1 as was the custom of the country1 was a user of tobacco4 ,this he was very fond of4 ,the class of people he entertained at his home frequently indulged in the use of intoxicants2 but these ,piripi never tasted4 ,he attended the ,episcopalian church1 but always felt that there was something lacking1 and he was looking for something to satisfy his spirit4 ,the manner in which he became acquainted with the ,gospel was related by him to the writer in substance as follows3 ,two strange men came to our home4 ,they were unheralded by any pomp or display4 ,they were not so much as dressed in the ordinary gown and tall hat worn by our preachers4 ,they were clothed in very plain1 but exceptionally clean clothing4 ,there was something very different about them from our ministers4 ,we had been in the habit of building homes for our preachers1 and fed them a little better than the ordinary folks2 but when these things were offered to these two preachers from a strange land--the land of the rising sun--,america1 they said3 ',no1 we are your fellow servants1 we are here to do you service1 your superiors4 ,let us eat with you1 and of what you eat4' ,imagine our amazement--preachers eating out of a common family dish1 and with natives too6 ,they had with them a new book1 which they explained was the history of my people before they came to this land4 ,they read portions of it to us and explained that the people of whom it spoke had lived and died in the great land to the east--the 'land of the rising sun'4 ,we had been told by one of our native seers that the true ,gospel of the ,lord would be brought to the ,maoris1 by white men1 who would come from 'the land of the rising sun4' ,these men were very humble1 and would not accept any of our lands1 as pay2 nor did they meddle with our women1 but spent day and night in preaching and teaching us4 ,we soon accepted the ,gospel1 and can not tell you half our joy and how the ,holy ,spirit was poured out upon us4 ,and to know that we really were of the ,house of ,israel4 ,why this alone brought joy unspeakable to our souls4 ,we received that long-looked for something that we had before lacked4 ,but now1 said ,piripi1 came the hardest task of all4 ,they told us the good news1 that we had a right to the ,priesthood1 and could act as ministers to our people4 ,they were instructed to organize a branch among us2 and that1 should we qualify ourselves1 the authority would be given us to be spiritual leaders among our kindred4 ,we must lay aside the use of tobacco and we must not gamble nor race horses4 ,they did not require us to 'sign the pledge' nor don the 'blue ribbon4' ,they were to be gone a month1 and during this time we were to consider1 and fast and pray and ask the ,lord to help us decide4 ,o1 friends ,i will never forget my feelings4 ,had our other ministers requested that we conform to this ruling we would not have done so4 ,there was not the comfort there to lead us to make sacrifices4 ,i dearly loved my tobacco1 and would have parted with all my wealth and lands rather than forsake the pipe4 ,i did get so much good--comfort--out of it2 and my blooded race horses were the pride of the land4 ,but this new information--that 'we were of ,israel' and might be ministers to our kindred--was a blessing not to be refused4 ,they said1 'pray1 fast and ask the ,great ,spirit to help you to decide4' ,i took my pipe and tobacco and left my home early on the morning that the ,elders took their departure4 ,reaching a little plateau up in the hills1 ,i found a huge rock4 ,i sat down by it and cut up my tobacco and filled my pipe full1 then took out some matches and placed them all on top of the stone4 ,then ,i stepped back a few paces4 ,i looked at them and said to myself3 ',there1' pointing to the things on the rock1 'is the devil1 and there1' pointing away up the valley and over the hills in the direction of the ,elders1 'is the ,priesthood4 ,which shall ,i obey1 ,god or the ,devil8' ,then ,i went to the opposite side of the rock and prayed for help4 ,when ,i returned ,i had decided4 ,i said1 ',i will not smoke my pipe again4' ,then ,i took a stone and broke the pipe into fragments4 ,on the second and third days ,i can not tell the trials through which ,i went1 and how ,i was tempted4 ,by reason of the fasting and denying myself tobacco ,i became deathly sick1 and on the third day1 something suggested to me that my oath was that ,i would not smoke my pipe again1 but that ,i did not say ',i will not use tobacco again4' ',piripi1 try a cigarette2 it is the going without a smoke that makes you so ill4' ,i yielded and smoked two1 but ,i did not improve1 so ,i said1 ',i will never use tobacco again in any form4 ,old ,satan is trying to cheat me out of the ,priesthood that rightfully belongs to me4' ,when the ,elders returned ,i had--by the help of the ,lord--conquered1 and was prepared to receive the blessings that had been promised4 ,later this good man disposed of all of his race horses1 and worked for the uplift of his people1 and died as he lived--true to the faith4 ,a most remarkable thing is that all of his children followed in his footsteps1 and are now leading pillars in the ,church4 ,he assisted in proof-reading the ,book of ,mormon when it was translated into his language4 ,he died in #ahig4 ,his life was an inspiration to all who knew him4 ,what he did in the matter of controlling his appetite1 and the comfort he experienced as a result1 should encourage others to try to do so4 ,l4 ,g4 ,h4 ,praying to ,death ,,attempt ,,of ,,hawaiian ,,priest ,,to ,,pray ,,mormon ,,elder ,,to ,,death--,,his ,,failure ,,and ,,hawaiian ,,discomfiture ,praying to death is an old practice among the ,hawaiians1 that prevailed in former times more than at the present day4 ,how successful it was ,i am not prepared to say4 ,i know that it proved a failure when an attempt was made to exercise it upon me over thirty years ago4 ,an offense1 intentional or unintentional 7it made no special difference which7 being given1 revenge was at once sought to be inflicted upon the offender without the shedding of blood4 ,i suppose success was attained oftener when the party under anathema knew or heard of what was going on against him4 ,the attempt against me was so secretly kept from my knowledge that ,i knew of no such project against me until the affair was settled in court4 ,the episode developed1 in the following way3 ,i had leased a tract of rush1 swampy land in ,crater ,valley1 consisting of about fifty acres to a ,chinaman for the cultivation of rice4 ,within the boundaries of this tract was an old loi of about a half acre which in former years had been devoted to the growing of kalo roots1 from which poi is made4 ,when the ,chinamen began work on this loi with their big hoes two native women with native men came with a din and noise such as only ,chinamen and ,hawaiians can make and drove the ,chinamen off4 ,i was in ,honolulu at the time4 ,on returning ,kupau1 a noted lawyer for the konehike1 7employed to watch and see that the ,chinamen did not trespass upon the land7 came to me and informed me of the fiasco1 and was anxious to know what could be done to prevent strife4 ,i advised that he muster all the ,chinamen he could and divide them into four squads2 then place one squad or division at each corner of the land which the natives were contesting for1 and have them go to work4 ,if the natives should come and drive them from one corner of the land1 let the ,chinamen proceed to another corner and take the place of the ,chinamen stationed there1 who would in turn supplant the next squad until the fourth squad should take the place of those just ousted by the natives1 and resume work until they in turn were driven off4 ,in this way the ,chinamen could keep alternating all day if necessary4 ,my policy was to limit the contest if possible to the natives and ,chinamen1 and if litigation had to be resorted to ,i preferred to defend rather than prosecute4 ,the plan worked1 and after half a day of intense noise1 the echo of which was wafted through the mountains1 the natives planted a suit against me as the konehike for ejectment4 ,in connection with the planting of the lawsuit1 the two women went and secured the services of a ,kahunapule --a priest of the ancient order4 ,this priest sacrificed black pigs and chickens and went through with his incantations while he feasted on pork and fowls for three weeks previous to the trial4 ,the last act which the two contesting women were instructed to do before the trial was to express great love and respect for me1 but they were to heap anathemas on ,kupau1 the attorney4 ,they did meet me in a street in the city of ,honolulu as ,i was on my way to the court house4 ,i may here add that the purpose of the kahunapule and the meeting of the two women were not understood by me until after the trial was over and the jury1 after being out two hours1 came in with a verdict in my favor4 ,during these two hours ,i sat in the center of the courtroom with my head resting on my hand4 ,in the hall way of the courtroom sat ten or fifteen members of our ,church1 intensely interested in and anxious as to what the verdict should be4 ,as ,i refused to go to lunch with the sheriff the natives believed ,i was praying during the two hours the jury was out1 for they knew of the kahunapule though ,i did not1 and they wanted to see which ,god would prove to be the more powerful4 ,when the jury came in and announced the verdict every ,church member gathered around me with expressions of aloha far to exceed what the two women had manifested to me on the street1 although that was so public ,i felt ashamed4 ,the two women left the courtroom and repaired to their ,kahunapule1 moaning and lamenting as they traversed the streets of ,honolulu4 ,as the accusers departed my people informed me for the first time of the action of the kahunapule and told how anxiously they had awaited the result4 ,they remarked we watched you during the two hours the jury were out and believed you were praying to ,god4 ,at the time of the occurrence of the court proceedings my wife and ,i were in ,honolulu ready to take the next steamer for ,san ,francisco4 ,thirty-three years have passed since then1 and ,i am still alive1 notwithstanding the efforts to pray me to death4 ,h4 ,h4 ,c4 ,transcriber's ,note3 ,misprints or misspellings in the text have been corrected1 or are otherwise as they appear in the book4 ,changes include3 ,prophet1 ,massacre1 unusual1 following1 ridicule1 thereafter1 missionary1 displayed1 concerned1 repudiated1 although1 inmates1 bishop1 presume1 ,colonel1 murderous1 without1 wilderness1 ,millard and scientific4