In compiling this volume no effort has been made at selecting scenes of a marvelous or sensational character; the aim has rather been to mention such incidents as would tend to show how the power of God was manifested in behalf of the Saints in those early days, and thereby promote faith among the young, for whose benefit this Series is published. Nor is it to be supposed that such scenes as are herein described have been confined to any particular period of our Church's history. As wonderful incidents of special providence could be related of the present age as of that which is past. The power of God is as manifest now in shaping the destiny of His Saints, in preserving their lives and in answering their prayers as it ever has been. The faithful never had greater cause to rejoice nor the wicked to tremble than they have at the present time. That the perusal of this volume may cause those into whose hands it may come to be more faithful and devoted to the cause of God, is the earnest desire of THE PUBLISHER. CONTENTS. "SHOW US A SIGN." My Sister's Hip Broken--No Hopes of Ever Being Able to Walk--Our Family Embrace the Gospel--Scoffers Demand as a Sign that my Sister be Healed--Elder Brackinbury's Designs--Caught in the Act of Robbing the Grave--My Brother's Death--My Sister Healed-The Healing Fails to Convince the Unbelievers. CONTEST WITH EVIL SPIRITS. The Savior's Promise--Sent on a Mission When a Boy--Conference in Burke's Garden--A Girl Apparently Stricken With Death--My Fright at Being Asked to Administer to Her--Prompted by the Spirit to Cast the Devil Out of Her--The Evil Spirit Leaves Her and Enters Two Others--Six Elders Contend With the Evil Spirit for Thirty-Six Hours--Its Final Banishment. EARLY EXPERIENCE OF A. O. SMOOT. CHAPTER I. Sickly Condition when Young--Healed According to Elder Patten's Prediction--Labor as a Missionary with Elder Woodruff--Severe Sickness--Healed Under the Administration of my Brethren--A Mission to the Southern States--Removal to Far West--Mission to Missouri and Arkansas--Opposed by a Baptist Deacon--Terrible Judgment upon Himself and Family--John Houston, the Infidel--Far West Besieged--Taken Prisoner. CHAPTER II. Married while a Prisoner of War--Property Confiscated--Removal to Quincy--First Hard Work--Removal to Montrose--Mission to Tennessee--Shot at--Camp, my Champion--A Lawyer and his Mob--Appeal to Masons for Help--Ready Response--Camp's Vengeance on the Lawyer--News of Martyrdom--Return to Nauvoo--Brigham Young Inspired--Another Mission South--Blessings in the Temple--Journey to Salt Lake Valley. CHAPTER III. Almost Lost in the Atlantic--Narrowly Escape the _Saluda_ Disaster--Nearly Dead with the Cholera--Healed in Answer to Prayer--Blown up with a Keg of Powder--A Sick Woman Healed--Elder Patten's Remarkable Prediction Fulfilled--A Man Almost Dead Recovers on Being Baptized. SCENES IN THE BRITISH MISSION. CHAPTER I.