Improvement Era, 1925 by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Religion

I labored in this way for ten years, in different parts of England, before coming to this country. I traveled from place to place. I raised up friends and baptized people and the Lord blessed me with strength of mind and body. I was only a young fellow-a little over nineteen. The Lord was with me in all my ministry. At that time I wrote a great many things for the Millennial Star, a publication in Liverpool. They are published in volumes to this day. A short time ago a man came to me and said he had read an old discourse of mine, written in 1859, published in the Millennial Star, in which I predicted a great many things, which he said had taken place. I got that copy of the Millennial Star, published on September 10, 1859, and these things that I wrote have come to pass, many of them word for word. These have been testimonies to me that the Lord was with me. During all of this time the power of God was with me and his Spirit led and directed me. In 1861 I was released and came out here. I crossed the sea in a sailing vessel, a vessel which has to depend upon the wind for traveling power. Nobody knew about steam in those days. No one traveled by electricity; the wonderful powers of electricity were not then known and developed. Many wonderful things have come to pass since that time. We were thirty days before the winds and the waves from Liverpool to New York. I had passage in the steerage among the poorest of the poor and was there with them for thirty days. From New York to St. Joseph it took nine days of travel, then three days up the river on a boat, lying out on the deck at night, then eleven weeks on the plains from the Missouri River to Salt Lake City.

I have to talk rapidly and cut things short so that you may hear what I have to say without tiring you.

So we were thirty days on the ocean, sea sick, travel worn, at the mercy of the winds and waves. The Civil War had broken out and it took us nine days from New York to St. Joseph. Then three days on the Missouri River, followed by eleven weeks on the plains driving two yoke of oxen. I borrowed money and bought a cart and some oxen. After I came here to Zion, I went to live in Farmington, and there I passed through the experience which caused me to write the song which my son, Frank, sang to you, called "Blow gently, ye wild winds." That song was written in England in 1865. I had been to Farmington, as I told you, and afterwards moved to Cache Valley. Just a few words about Farmington. There I had the experiences of my life. I had obtained a small log cabin which faced the east. At that time several severe wind storms had occurred which had blown things to pieces.

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