Autobiography Volume 3 circa 1865-1866
On in the prayer circle President
Young in speaking of a blank in the History said that it was during
that time in the fall and Winter of 1844 that Sidney Rigdon preached
his great sermon when he was going to take Queen Victoria by the
nose. We did a good deal of work at the time on the
Temple and it was difficult to get bread for the hands to eat
I told the people or the committee who had charge of the Temple means
to deal out all the flour they had and God would give them more
and they did so. And it was but a short time before Brother
Toronto came and brought me twenty five hundred dollars in
gold. The committee and the Bishop met and I met with
them and they said that the law was to lay the gold at the
Apostles' feet. Yes I said and I will lay it at the Bishop's
feet: so I opened the mouth of the bag and took hold of the bottom
end and gave it a jerk towards the Bishop and strewed the
gold across the room at his feet. I said now go and buy
flour for the workmen on that Temple and dont distrust the
Lord any more for we will have what we need.
