called the Isle of Holt. We arrived at noon, and I preached
to the people at night in their school-house, and had an
attentive audience. I spent the night with John Turner,
Esq., who purchased a copy of the Book of Mormon.
On the following day we returned to Fox Islands, and as
St. Paul once had to row hard to make the land in a storm,
we had to row hard to make it in a calm. [Acts 27]
After preaching on the North Island again and baptizing
two persons at the close of the meeting, I returned again to
the mainland in company with Mrs. Woodruff and others,
where I spent fifteen days, during which time I visited among
the people, held twelve meetings and baptized several persons.
On the I returned again to the North
Island, where I held several meetings, and then crossed over
to the South Island.
On the I spent an hour with Mr. Isaac
Crockett in clearing away large blocks of ice from the water
in a cove, in order to baptize him, which I did when the tide
came in. I also baptized two more in the same place on the
, and again two others on the .
On the I held a meeting at a school-house, when
William Douglass, the Methodist minister, came and wanted
me to work a miracle, that he might believe, and otherwise
railed against me.
I told him what class of men asked for signs, and that he
was a wicked and adulterous man, and predicted that the curse
of God would rest upon him, and that his wickedness would
be made manifest in the eyes of the people. (While visiting
these islands several years afterwards I learned that the pre-
diction had really been fulfilled, and that he was serving out a
fourteen years' term of imprisonment for a beastly crime).
Mrs. Woodruff crossed the thoroughfare in a boat and
walked ten miles, the length of the island, to meet me, on the
last day of the year. I held a meeting the same day in the
school-house, and at the close of the meeting baptized two
persons in the sea, at full tide, before a large assembly.
, found me standing upon one of the
islands of the sea, a minister of the gospel of life offer salva-
tion unto the people, laboring alone, though blessed with the
LEAVES FROM MY JOURNAL.
called the Isle of Holt. We arrived at noon, and I preached
to the people at night in their school-house, and had an
attentive audience. I spent the night with John Turner,
Esq., who purchased a copy of the Book of Mormon.
On the following day we returned to Fox Islands, and as
St. Paul once had to row hard to make the land in a storm,
we had to row hard to make it in a calm.
After preaching on the North Island again and baptizing
two persons at the close of the meeting, I returned again to
the mainland in company with Mrs. Woodruff and others,
where I spent fifteen days, during which time I visited among
the people, held twelve meetings and baptized several persons.
On the I returned again to the North
Island, where I held several meetings, and then crossed over
to the South Island.
On the I spent an hour with Mr. Isaac
Crockett in clearing away large blocks of ice from the water
in a cove, in order to baptize him, which I did when the tide
came in. I also baptized two more in the same place on the
, and again two others on the .
On the I held a meeting at a school-house, when
William Douglass, the Methodist minister, came and wanted
me to work a miracle, that he might believe, and otherwise
railed against me.
I told him what class of men asked for signs, and that he
was a wicked and adulterous man, and predicted that the curse
of God would rest upon him, and that his wickedness would
be made manifest in the eyes of the people. (While visiting
these islands several years afterwards I learned that the prediction had really been fulfilled, and that he was serving out a
fourteen years' term of imprisonment for a beastly crime).
Mrs. Woodruff crossed the thoroughfare in a boat and
walked ten miles, the length of the island, to meet me, on the
last day of the year. I held a meeting the same day in the
school-house, and at the close of the meeting baptized two
persons in the sea, at full tide, before a large assembly.
, found me standing upon one of the
islands of the sea, a minister of the gospel of life offer salvation unto the people, laboring alone, though blessed with the
