CHAPTER IV. Ashamed of my appearance--Introduced to my numerous relatives--Allowed to sleep with the boys--Homesick--Set to work and made contented--Baptized and set apart for a mission--Return to Iowa--Meet my relatives--My Grandfather's confession and testimony--His exhortation and request--Return home with my brother Isaac, thus fulfilling my Father's prediction--The lessons I learned by my experience. SAVED BY PROVIDENCE. Appointed to take charge of a company of emigrants--Leave London for America--Surrounded by a thick fog--The Captain unable to take observations--The fog lifts--Saved from being dashed upon the rocks--Thank God for our deliverance. WARNINGS OF THE SPIRIT. Impressed by the Spirit not to go on a steamer, after arranging for my passage--Rush ashore before the boat starts--Boat snagged and sunk in the Mississippi--Warned by the Spirit not to meet an appointment--Urged by my friends, I start--Aversion to going so strong, I gallop back--Friends unable to account for my fears--Robbery at the house where I was to have gone--Saved from suspicion by obeying the voice of the Spirit. ROBERT HAMILTON. Challenged to debate by Dr. Waltholl--His discomfiture and defeat--Dr. Scott attempts to retrieve the Campbellite cause, and offers another challenge--Resorts to the whiskey bottle--Elder Hamilton scores him for it. HOW SUCCESS IS GAINED. Elders to go out two and two--Young missionaries inclined to shirk--Elder Moses Thatcher--His diffidence--The way he was broken in--His success--Elder McAllister--His backwardness in speaking--Forced into it--His testimony--Elder Coray's experience--Promises of the Lord proved true. HELP IN TIME OF NEED. CHAPTER I. Start upon a mission, penniless--Aid from the Captain and passengers on the steamboat--Arrive at New Orleans--Fail in trying to find free passage to England--Discouragement--Prayer--Rebuke and answer--Apply for passage on the _Berlin_--Kind reception from Captain Baker--Bargain for passage--One-half to be paid in discussing religion with an Episcopalian Minister. CHAPTER II. The voyage--Discussion--Minister's discomfiture--Arrive in Liverpool--Kindness of Captain Baker--Learn of his death and my duty--My shabby appearance--First sermon--Money put into my hand--Visit home--More help from strangers. OVERCOMING DIFFIDENCE. Difference in persons about speaking in public--The Lord willing to help His servants to overcome timidity--Early experience in preaching--A feeling of fear and the Spirit of God not congenial--Timidity conquered. THE LORD WILL PROVIDE. A Mother and Children in great want--The Mother's faith--Her prayer--Is provided with money in a mysterious way. DIALOGUE ON RELIGION. TESTIMONIES FOR THE TRUTH. CHAPTER I.