continued our journey without any particular incident for the interval
of three days at which date we were brought to another seperation
On the we made arrangements to further devide
our little company, as brothers Thomas and Townsend w[ere] inclined
to stop by the way and winter
Our company was truly getting very small there being now
only brothers LuceBrown and myself and our families to continue
our way together but we felt united in spirit and determined
to go onward
That night we had a comfortable room at a Inn 7 miles
from Worster. We were by ourselves for the night; and while sitting
by the fire side Sister Lydia Luce related a dream that she
had on the night before. It was as follows:
She saw a small sun in the South and while
looking at the strange phenomenon there appeared a ring of blood
in the West. There also appeared directly several other rings
of blood of a larger size all encircling each other, forming
a ring within a ring. Soon following this a ladder of fire was seen
blazing in the heavens and it fell to the earth and broke into
two peaces. One part of the ladder had an iron plate fastened
to the end of it with something also attached to it. She said
that in her dream I went and picked it up and read it
and it contained the XV. Chapter of Isaiah. By reading
this chapter it will be seen that this ^is^ very typical of what
has to befall this Gentile nation in particular and the world
in general in the last days.
As we travelled along we were continually hearing
of the Mormon war as it was called and the inhabitants of Missouri were persecuting and puting the Saints to death because
of their religion
On the Phebe was attacked with a severe
head ache which terminated in the brain fever. Still we
travelled on daily though my wife suffered much from the
journey.
The first day of winter was a pleasent one as
far as the season of the year was concerned; but O the winter
of sorrow was trying to seize upon my soul. Our company
was much afflicted.
It was and as we journeyed
continued our journey without any particular incident for the interval
of three days at which date we were brought to another seperation
On the 20th we made arrangements to further devide
our little company, as brothers Thomas and Townsend were inclined
to stop by the way and winter
Our company was truly getting very small there being now
only brothers LuceBrown and myself and our families to continue
our way together but we felt united in spirit and determined
to go onward
That night we had a comfortable room at a Inn 7 miles
from Worster. We were by ourselves for the night; and while sitting
by the fire side Sister Lydia Luce related a dream that she
had on the night before. It was as follows:
She saw a small sun in the South and while
looking at the strange phenomenon there appeared a ring of blood
in the West. There also appeared directly several other rings
of blood of a larger size all encircling each other, forming
a ring within a ring. Soon following this a ladder of fire was seen
blazing in the heavens and it fell to the earth and broke into
two peaces. One part of the ladder had an iron plate fastened
to the end of it with something also attached to it. She said
that in her dream I went and picked it up and read it
and it contained the XV. Chapter of Isaiah. By reading
this chapter it will be seen that this is very typical of what
has to befall this Gentile nation in particular and the world
in general in the last days.
As we travelled along we were continually hearing
of the Mormon war as it was called and the inhabitants of
Missouri were persecuting and puting the Saints to death because
of their religion
On the 23rd Phebe was attacked with a severe
head ache which terminated in the brain fever. Still we
travelled on daily though my wife suffered much from the
journey.
The first day of winter was a pleasent one as
far as the season of the year was concerned; but O the winter
of sorrow was trying to seize upon my soul. Our company
was much afflicted.
It was December the first and as we journeyed
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