I shall never forget Johnsons army wthen we listened attentively to President Young's counsel, Yes we were united
in the thought to burn up our homes
and many precious things, and go
where we could find a home in these mountains to serve God as best we could.
Did we give Br. Lot Smith
the praise for their defeat? Could he
have done it without the wisdom God
gave him, and also blessed his efforts?
No never: Our Father overrules our
destinies, there was not a drop of blood
shed here. No their blood was shed
at home. Do not we know that
God was in all this? Yes the same
as it was with Ammon, who was
so greatly abused by the Lamanites
he thought he could bear no more
and was about to leave, when the
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I shall never forget Johnsons army
then we listened attentively to President
Young's counsel. Yes we were united
in the thought to burn up our homes
and many precious things, and go
where we could find a home in these
mountains to serve God as best we could.
Did we give Br. Lot Smith
the praise for their defeat? Could he
have done it without the wisdom God
gave him, and also blessed his efforts?
No never: Our Father overrules our
destinies, there was not a drop of blood
shed here. No their blood was shed
at home. Do not we know that
God was in all this? Yes the same
as it was with Ammon, who was
so greatly abused by the Lamanites
he thought he could bear no more
and was about to leave, when the
"Letter from Mary Ellen Kimball, 19 December 1891," p. 5, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 25, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/gpKD