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
Sent to Hospital--Blue Jacket Converted--Warned by Spirit to Leave
Ship--Disobeys Warning--Narrow Escape When Ship Founders--A Dangerous
Fall--Led by Inspiration--Inspired Promise Fulfilled--Work in
Temple--Departure for Mission.
OBTAINING GENEALOGIES.
At Solicitation of Saints in Utah, Engages in Genealogical
Research While Serving as a Missionary--Takes a Special Mission
for Such Work--Impression That He Was Receiving Help from the
Spirit World--Search for Williams' Genealogies--A Sign and a
Mutual Impression--Valuable Data Obtained form a Stranger, Who Was
Evidently inspired--Research of Chamberlain Family Record Helped by a
Stranger Who Was Also Evidently Inspired to Do So--Valuable Records
Providentially Found in Unexpected Place.
WARNED BY THE SPIRIT.
CHAPTER I.
Chauncey W. West Sent on a Mission to Asia--Dreams of the Wreck of a
Vessel Upon Which He had Engaged Passage--Left the Ship, and Afterwards
Learned From the Grew of the Vessel Being Wrecked Just as He Had
Dreamed that it Would be--While Awaiting Another Opportunity to Ship
to California was Prompted to Vacate a House Where He and Companion
Elder Were Staying--House Immediately Afterwards Crushed by Large Stone
Rolling Down From Side of Mountain.
CHAPTER II.
Elder James Lawson Inspired to Quit a Steamboat on Which he was a
Passenger--Jumped on a Flatboat--A Few moments later the Steamboat
Sank, and most of the Passengers were Drowned.
CHAPTER III.
Comforting Assurance Experienced by A. O. Smoot During a Storm at
Sea--His Narrow Escape from being a Victim of the Saluda Disaster--His
Account of the Explosion.
CHAPTER IV.
Series of Escapes Experienced by President Woodruff Through Heeding the
Spirit's Warnings--Instance of Failing to do so.
RECALLED BY ELDER HEBER J. GRANT.
Excerpts from Discourse Delivered in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake
City, April 26,1914--Methodist Episcopal Minister Converted to
Mormonism--Goes to England as a Mormon Missionary--Calls Upon His
Former Minister--His Undignified Reception--Anti "Mormon" Assertion
Disproved by Facts--A Minister's Confession--Puzzling Questions
Propounded to Ministers, Unanswered--Attitude of Latter-Day Saints
Thereon--Unseen Evidence of Power--A Prediction by the Gift of Tongues
that was Literally Fulfilled--Truth Only Strengthened by Attempts
to Overthrow it--Karl G. Maeser's Conversion--His Pledge and its
Fulfillment--Ben Butler's Advice.
A BUSY LIFE
CHAPTER I.
Anson Call's Birth and Character--Investigated "Mormonism" to Disprove
it, and Became Converted--Impediment in His Speech Cured When
Administered to--An Anti-"Mormon" Missourian--Buy Farms in Caldwell
County--The Prophet Visits Missouri--Advises Abandonment of Homes--Mob
Tries to Prevent their Removal--Flee by Night--Adam-Ondi-Ahman and Far
West Besieged.
CHAPTER II.
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