Gems of Reminiscence: Seventeenth Book of the Faith Promoting Series, Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints
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Gems of Reminiscence: Seventeenth Book of the Faith Promoting Series, Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Missions
When Father Charles Lambert left Nauvoo he entered upon an order of
life that was entirely new to him--that of a frontiersman. In remaining
in Nauvoo until the work on the Temple ceased he not only followed the
counsel of the authorities of the Church, but fulfilled also the vow
that he has personally made to do so regardless of compensation. There
was, however, an additional reason for his so doing. While continuously
employed upon the Temple he had no opportunity of earning by work
elsewhere the necessary equipment for migrating. He had, partly by his
own labor at odd times and partly by help from others, completed the
wood work for a wagon but lacked the required iron to finish it, or
the necessary money with which to buy it. Preparation for the journey
was thus effectually blocked for some time until the money was finally
provided in a most miraculous manner, as a direct answer to prayer.
He had been out in a rainstorm one day and had returned home drenched
to the skin. After changing his clothes he hung his wet trousers over
a chair back before the fire to dry. When he was about to resume the
use of the same clothes again after they had become dry, an English
gold sovereign and fifteen cents in silver rolled out of the trousers
pocket upon the floor, notwithstanding the fact that he had previously
had no money. This was just the amount required for the purchase of
the iron, and the wagon was soon completed. This was not the first
time money to supply a dire necessity had been furnished the family in
answer to prayer in a most mysterious manner. Once when Charles J.,
the first child in the family was taken violently ill and money was
needed and prayed for with which to buy medicine the father entered
the house feeling something that he had discovered in the waist-band
of his trousers, and which he remarked felt like money. On having the
waist-band ripped open the object was found to be twenty-five cents,
just the amount required for the medicine. They would not use it,
however, until they had inquired of the tailor who made the pants a
short time previously if he had lost it, but he said he could not
possibly have accidently sewed the money in the waistband when making
the pants, for he had no money. In both of these instances the money
was accepted as a gift from the Lord.
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