130 TULLIDGE'S QUARTERLY MAGAZINE.
I was called upon to visit the child.
I found it in great distress, writhing in
its mother's arms. We upon
it and cast the devil out of it, and the
had no power over the house-
hold afterwards.
This was done by the ,
and not of man. We laid hands upon
twenty in who were sick,
and they were mostly healed.
On the 21st, I arrived in by
coach, and met, for the first time, with
Elder . This being my
field of labor, I stopped and commenced
work.
Elder stopped in the pottery
district some eight days, then went to
, his field of labor.
I received a letter on the 10th of Feb-
ruary, from Elder , who was
at , saying they had commenced
there and baptized ten persons.
I labored in the ,
Burslem, , , ,
and several other villages, from the 22d,
of January until the 2d of March
preaching every night in the week and
two or three times on the Sabbath.
I baptized, confirmed and blessed
many, and we had a good field open for
labor. Many were believing, and it ap-
peared as though we had a door open to
bring many into the Church in that part
of the vineyard.
March 1st, 1840, was my ,
when I was thirty-three years of age. It
being Sunday, I preached twice through
the day to a large assembly in the City
Hall, in the town of Hanley, and ad-
ministered the unto the
Saints.
In the evening I again met with a large
assembly of the Saints and strangers, and
while singing the first hymn the Spirit of
the Lord rested upon me, and the said to me, "This is the last
meeting that you will hold with this peo-
ple for many days."
I was astonished at this, as I had
many appointments out in that district.
When I arose to speak to the people,
I told them that it was the last meeting
I should hold with them for many days.
They were as much astonished as I was.
At the close of the meeting four
persons came forward for baptism, and
we went down into the water and bap-
tized them.
In the morning I went in secret before
the Lord, and asked Him what His will
was concerning me.
The answer I got was, that I should
go to the south, for the Lord had a great
work for me to perform there, as many
souls were waiting for the word of the
Lord.
On the 3d of March, 1840, in fulfill-
ment of the word of the Lord to me, I
took coach and rode to ,
twenty-six miles, and spent the night
there.
On the morning of the 4th I again
took coach, and rode through ,
, and ,
and then walked a number of miles to
Mr. , , Castle
Frome, Ledbury, Herefordshire. This
was a farming country in the south of
England, a region where no Elder of the
had visited.
I found Mr. Benbow to be a wealthy
farmer, cultivating three hundred acres
of land, occupying a good mansion, and
having plenty of means. His wife, ,
had no children.
I presented myself to him as a mission-
ary from America, an Elder of the
, who had been sent to him by the
commandment of God as a messenger of
salvation, to of life
unto him and his household, and the in-
habitants of the land.
Mr. Benbow and his wife received me
with glad hearts and thanksgiving. It
was in the evening when I arrived, hav-
ing traveled forty-eight miles by coach
and on foot during the day, but after
receiving refreshments we sat down to-
gether, and conversed until two o'clock
in the morning.
Mr. Benbow and his wife rejoiced
greatly at the glad tidings which I
brought unto them of the of the
everlasting gospel, which God had re-
vealed through the mouth of His Prophet,
, in these .
I rejoiced greatly at the news that Mr.
Benbow gave me, that there was a
company of men and women--over six
hundred in number--who had broken off
from the Wesleyan , and taken
the name of . They
had forty-five preachers among them,
and had chapels and many houses that
