Autobiography Volume 1 circa 1842-1865
The following I was called upon to visit another
young man who lay dangerously ill with the fever. He
covenanted to keep the commandments of God and I
anointed him and rebuked the fever and he began
to recover. I also visited an aged Saint upon her
death bed and blessed her. She was rejoicing in
the fulness of the Gospel in death
The Church ministers at this time were very
much stirred up in this region because of the success of the
work of God in the midst of the people and every exertion
were made by them to stay its progress. They were finding
that the Lord was delivering their flocks out of their hands
and giving them unto the shepherds of the Church of the
Saints. They were alarmed and were holding conventions
and meetings to contrive plans and adopt means to over-
throw the Latter-day Work of God which they understood
not and beleived not yet feared its power. And well
indeed they might for in some instances they did not
have more than 10 or 15 at their Churches on the Sabbath
while around them on every hand they had seen forty
Branches of two organized Conferences of the Church of
Latter-Day Saints spring up in about six months with
over a thousand members and between one and two
hundred officers ordained to scatter the ^seed of the^ Gospel everwhere
upon the new broken ground of ^in^ this prolific field.
