Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-08-29

After | came 10 thcse valleys and
returned 90 Winter Quarters, I was
sont to Boston by PIeaident Young
lie vented me to take my amily there
aud gather all tho Saints " God In
New England, In Canada, and In the
surrounding regions, and stay there
until rathcred them all. | was there
about two years. While On tho road
there, drove my carriage one evening
into the yard of Brother Williams.
Brother Onon Hyde drove n wagon
| by the size Of mine. | had my vito
aud children in the carriage. After
turned out my team mud had my
supper, / went to bed In the
carriage. had not been there but
few minutes when the Spirit said TO
me, "Get up aud move that carriage"
told my wife / had TO get up aud
move the carriage. She said, "What
fot?" aaid, ~ don't know" That
l. all she asked me ON such occasions;
when told her did not know, that
was enough. got up and moved my
carriage four or i've rOds aud put the
oil fore wheel against the corner of
the house. then looked around me
and went TO bed. Thesam spirit said,
"Go aud move your animals from that
/ NNk hwy WV AWN AAAAANAAtN
| yards from where my earring. was. |
went aud moved my horses aud put
them In little hickory grove.
again went to bed. In thirty min
utes whirlwind came up and broke
tina, oak tree oil within two feet from
the ground. II swept over three or
four funccs and fell square In that door.
ynri, near Brother Orson Hyde's
wagon, aud right whore mine had
stood. What would have been the
consequences II had no, listened to
TINT Spirit? Why, myself aud wife aud
children doubtless would have been
killed. That was the siill, small voice
10 memo earthquake, no thunder, no
lightning; bat the still, small voice Of
the Spirit OF GDd.' II saved my HE.
IL was the spirlt Of revelation 10 me.
When | moved the last company "
Saints from the East There were about
ono hunnrcd " them) We arrived at
Piitshurg Oun day Mt sundown. We
did not want 10 stay there, 30 ! went
10 the first steamboat that was going t.
leave. | saw the captain and engaged
passage for Us on that steamer. | had
only Just done 40 whes the spirit said
10 me, aud that too very strongly,
"Don't 20 aboard that steamer, nor
your company" or course, went
aud spoke to the captain and told him
had made up my mind 10 walt. Well,
II started nud had only got i've miles
down the river when II took ilic and
three hundred persons were burned to
death or drowned. III had not ohcyud
that Spirit and had gone ON that
steamer with tho rest VI tho company,
YOU can Rec what the result would
have been.
We'll, have had good deal Of
experience In these things In my day
| have learned them ~ thoroughly
that dare not disobey that Spirit.
After one Conference, when we had sci
apart good many missionaries, went
home quito weary, aud { said TO myself
| will 20 aud have n rest. Before
got In my house, the Spirit told me- h
take my team and 20 to my farm.
My wife says, "whefo ara you going?H
~ am going down TO the farm.'
"whnt fof?" ~ don't know" says /
went down 10 the farm. found mat
the river had broken over and had sur.
rounded my house. The water was tw,
feet deep around my house. My hog
were drowning, and my stables weT,
full. Bygoing there saved my hous,
nnd surroundings nnd stopped up the
break.
Theu, may bc conslderod small things
stIll they show Tho working on m,
splrit. 4 will NOW tsli Wan one lncl,len
where 1 dII moi obey IA, Shirt on m,
Lord. and n came nr.ity near costlns
me NV he, I was over M RRndoInl
one December. visiting. ON Monja,
morning Inc Splrit sald To me anlt,
your team and 10 home,D 1 made uI
INV mind 10 do IA, Inn SOME ~ M
friends fclt anxious that should slon
AS my visit had bgen rather shoft. mn,
1 wn. p.rstnded 10 atom. STAYED mn
nj saturday morning. but felt nn,1sy
That warning Of ihe Spirll rested uns,
, me 10 that degree that nj
condemned. md tgld my
friends that / was going hom.
nte nm onrlv hre,lf,st ,ha
I morning, put my horses In m,
wagon, took some hay and grain, ant
started for home by way OF Was stch
which was some thirty miles from
there. When got 10 Woodruff, tn
, Bishop waniel me 10 stay and hol
. meeting there on Sunday. "N0,'
, says [, ~ have already stayed too lon
+ by one wcek.v We'll, after I got abou
/ three miles from Woodruff. which /
: fifteen miles from Wasatch, met wilt
, one OF tho most terrific snowstorms
, ever saw In my life. IL was not fiv
, minutes after Il commenced before
! could not see tho foad. | could no
/ guide my horses at all, 40 | let then
70 where they pleased. They la
, been twice over the ground bo
fore, 1 shut down tho wagon GOV.