JOURNEY TO AKEMAN'S. CHAPTER V. OUR ANXIETY TO MEET A SAINT—JOURNEY TO AKEMAN'S— A DREAM—FIND MR. AKEMAN A RANK APOSTATE—HE RAISES A MOB—THREATENED WITH TAR, FEATHERS, ETC.—I WARN MR. AKEMAN TO REPENT—HE FALLS DEAD AT MY FEET—I PREACH HIS FUNERAL SERMON. IN the early days of the Church, it was a great treat to an Elder in his travels through the country to find a "Mor- mon;" it was so with us. We were hardly in Arkansas when we heard of a family named ...

stupid I feel that there hearts are more set upon the things of their farms than they are to prepare for the great day of the Lord. I pray the Lord to Bless us & give us his Holy spirit to prepare us for his kingdom & comeing for Christ sake Amen at 7 oclock in the evening the people again assembled & filled the House and they were addressed by W. Woodruff who said Brethren & Sisters I am truly glad to meet with you in the capacity ...

Dec 15th 1869 we fed him a tumbler full that satisfied him & he fell asleep & slept for half an hour and After He awoke he vomited up a good deal of flem But finally became distresed again in the lungs & continued sinking through the night December 16, 1869 ~ Thursday 16. The child is dying this morning Delight the Mother of the child is feeling vary bad Emma, Sarah, & myself was with the child ...

the set time has come to favor Zion to build it up in strength power & glory to gather Israel to build Jerrusalem & Zion to fight for our liberty & freedom. we have sent the Gospel forth & preached the Book of Mormon and the minstry of Jesus on this continent in Ancient days Now the time is come to gather Israel & polish them. Their is a great excitement in the world about slavery & the abolitioneist are vary fearful that we shall have the

you would never see contention unto the day of your death Ask the world if they do not like a people who live in peace & are contented & they will say yes it is beautiful take the world at the present time & they are like wolves eat each other up they fight & contend & devour each other the abolitionest become heated & say the Negro must be made equal to the white man at the table & all other places they will at the same time turn away the widow & orphan ...

can reach & manage & tell what ought to be done you ought to cease from taking the liberty of any person but do unto all as you would wish them to do unto you infringe upon the rights of no one Borrow no tool but what you will return according to promise take no wood nor any thing els but what belongs to you and if you find any thing that is not your own do not hide it away but report it that the owner may be found. If I had some stones ...

in him cannot hold the priesthood & if no other Prothet ever spake it before I will say it now in the name of Jesus Christ I know it is true & they know it the Negro cannot hold one particle of Government but the day will come when all the seed of Cane will be Redeemed & have all the blessings we have now & a great deal more but the seed of Abel will be ahead of the seed of Cane to all Eternity let ...

were prophets of God & that we had many prophets of God I remember the time when we were to work hard to build the Temple in Nauvoo I remembered what Broth Brigham said that if we were faithful in finishing this Temple we should have our Endowmts if we had to get them in a Tabernacle in the wilderness we ar now in a tabernacle in the wilderness & getting our blesings He said he would lead us to a place wher we ...

nearest house on the road. He went out of sight in great haste I then knelt down in the water & prayed the Lord to heal me up & the spirit of the Lord rested upon me & I was healed the pain left me I arose & went my way ^*^ whenever I met with one or more families I preached to them & bore my testimony as I went alone to the people I arrived at the Missippi River & crossed it in the evening of the 27th March 1835 ...

August 25, 1858 ~ Wednesday 25 Aug I called upon President Young in the morning & spoke upon the Loss of the Deseret Alphabet manuscript. I met with A. P. Rockwood & Samuel Richards as the inspecters of the Penetentiary to make out Documents to send to washington I attended the prayer circle August 26, 1858 ~ Thursday 26th I took a portion of my famil[y] & went into the field to prepare for threshing my wheat ...