LEAVES FROM MY JOURNAL.

Heman Hyde. We spent the summer together, laboring
hard, cutting wheat, quarrying rock, making brick, or anything
else we could find to do.

In the fall I had a desire to go and preach the gospel. I
knew the gospel which the Lord had revealed to Joseph Smith
was true, and of such great value that I wanted to tell it to
the people who had not heard it. It was so good and plain,
it seemed to me I could make the people believe it.

I was but a Teacher, and it is not a Teacher's office to go
abroad and preach. I dared not tell any of the authorities of
the Church that I wanted to preach, lest they might think I
was seeking for an office.

I went into the woods where no one could see me, and I
prayed to the Lord to open my way so that I could go and
preach the gospel. While I was praying, the Spirit of the
Lord came upon me, and told me my prayer was heard and
that my request should be granted.

I felt very happy, and got up and walked out of the woods
into the traveled road, and there I met a High Priest who
had lived in the same house with me some six months.

He had not said a word to me about preaching the gospel;
but now, as soon as I met him, he said, "the Lord has revealed
to me that it is your privilege to be ordained, and to go and
preach the gospel.”

I told him I was willing to do whatever the Lord required
of me. I did not tell him I had just asked the Lord to let
me go and preach.

In a few days a council was called at Lyman Wight's, and I
was ordained a Priest and sent on a mission into Arkansas and
Tennessee, in company with an Elder. This mission was given
us by Elder Edward Partridge, who was the first Bishop
ordained in the Church.

The law of God to us in those days was to go without purse
or scrip. Our journey lay through Jackson County, from
which the Saints had just been driven, and it was dangerous
for a "Mormon" to be found in that part of the State.

We put some Books of Mormon and some clothing into our
valises, strapped them on our backs, and started on foot. We
Crossed the ferry into Jackson County, and went through it.

LEAVES FROM MY JOURNAL.

Heman Hyde. We spent the summer together, laboring hard, cutting wheat, quarrying rock, making brick, or anything else we could find to do.

In the fall I had a desire to go and preach the gospel. I knew the gospel which the Lord had revealed to Joseph Smith was true, and of such great value that I wanted to tell it to the people who had not heard it. It was so good and plain, it seemed to me I could make the people believe it.

I was but a Teacher, and it is not a Teacher's office to go abroad and preach. I dared not tell any of the authorities of the Church that I wanted to preach, lest they might think I was seeking for an office.

I went into the woods where no one could see me, and I prayed to the Lord to open my way so that I could go and preach the gospel. While I was praying, the Spirit of the Lord came upon me, and told me my prayer was heard and that my request should be granted.

I felt very happy, and got up and walked out of the woods into the traveled road, and there I met a High Priest who had lived in the same house with me some six months.

He had not said a word to me about preaching the gospel; but now, as soon as I met him, he said, "the Lord has revealed to me that it is your privilege to be ordained, and to go and preach the gospel.”

I told him I was willing to do whatever the Lord required of me. I did not tell him I had just asked the Lord to let me go and preach.

In a few days a council was called at Lyman Wight's, and I was ordained a Priest and sent on a mission into Arkansas and Tennessee, in company with an Elder. This mission was given us by Elder Edward Partridge, who was the first Bishop ordained in the Church.

The law of God to us in those days was to go without purse or scrip. Our journey lay through Jackson County, from which the Saints had just been driven, and it was dangerous for a "Mormon" to be found in that part of the State.

We put some Books of Mormon and some clothing into our valises, strapped them on our backs, and started on foot. We Crossed the ferry into Jackson County, and went through it.