LEAVES FROM MY JOURNAL.

possession a large amount of money to make payment on their
land purchase. This was known to some road agents in the
vicinity, who gathered a company of robbers and went on
ahead of Brother Rich and lay in ambush, intending to kill
the "Mormons" and rob them of their money.

Before reaching the company of robbers Brother Rich came
to a by-path or trail. The Spirit then told him to take that
path.

The brethren with him marveled at his course, not knowing
that enemies awaited them, but they arrived in safety at San
Bernardino with their lives and money, while the robbers
wondered why their prey did not come.

CHAPTER XXVII.

RESULT OF NOT OBEYING THE VOICE OF THE SPIRIT—LOST
IN A SNOWSTORM—SAVED IN ANSWER TO PRAYER—
REVELATION TO MISSIONARIES NECESSARY—REVELA-
TIONS IN THE ST. GEORGE TEMPLE.

I WILL now give an example from my own experience of
the result of not obeying the voice of the Spirit.

Some years since I had a part of my family living in Ran-
dolph, Rich County. I was there on a visit, with my team,
in the month of December.

One Monday morning my monitor, the Spirit watching
over me, said, "Take your team and go home to Salt Lake
City."

When I named it to my family who were at Randolph they
urged me strongly to stop longer.

Through their persuasion I stayed until Saturday morning,
with the Spirit continually prompting me to go home. I then
began to feel ashamed to think that I had not obeyed the
whisperings of the Spirit to me before.

LEAVES FROM MY JOURNAL.

possession a large amount of money to make payment on their land purchase. This was known to some road agents in the vicinity, who gathered a company of robbers and went on ahead of Brother Rich and lay in ambush, intending to kill the "Mormons" and rob them of their money.

Before reaching the company of robbers Brother Rich came to a by-path or trail. The Spirit then told him to take that path.

The brethren with him marveled at his course, not knowing that enemies awaited them, but they arrived in safety at San Bernardino with their lives and money, while the robbers wondered why their prey did not come.

CHAPTER XXVII.

RESULT OF NOT OBEYING THE VOICE OF THE SPIRIT—LOST IN A SNOWSTORM—SAVED IN ANSWER TO PRAYER— REVELATION TO MISSIONARIES NECESSARY—REVELATIONS IN THE ST. GEORGE TEMPLE.

I WILL now give an example from my own experience of the result of not obeying the voice of the Spirit.

Some years since I had a part of my family living in Randolph, Rich County. I was there on a visit, with my team, in the month of December.

One Monday morning my monitor, the Spirit watching over me, said, "Take your team and go home to Salt Lake City."

When I named it to my family who were at Randolph they urged me strongly to stop longer.

Through their persuasion I stayed until Saturday morning, with the Spirit continually prompting me to go home. I then began to feel ashamed to think that I had not obeyed the whisperings of the Spirit to me before.