HELPFUL VISIONS. THE FOURTEENTH BOOK OF THE FAITH-PROMOTING SERIES. Intended for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints. JUVENILE INSTRUCTOR OFFICE, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. 1887. COMBINED FAITH-PROMOTING SERIES, Nos. 1-5, $1.35, Nos. 6-10, $1.25. CONTENTS. A TERRIBLE ORDEAL. CHAPTER I. Remarkable Spiritual Manifestations--Thrilling Experience of Elder David P. Kimball, as Narrated by himself. CHAPTER II. Account of Patten Kimball and Others, Regarding the Search for and Finding of his Father. BRIANT S. STEVENS. CHAPTER I. Briant Stringham Stevens Becomes a Missionary to His Associates and Brings Four Boys to Belief and Baptism--A Good Child who Passed Amidst the Daily Temptations of Life Unscathed. CHAPTER II. Accidents to Briant--He is Ordained to the Priesthood--Patient Endurance of His Sufferings--He is Blessed to be an Elder and then Slumbers in Death. CHAPTER III. A "Helpful Vision" to Briant's Stricken Father--the Comforter Brings the Peace which Passes All Understanding--The Funeral of the Little Missionary--His Work Lives after Him. FINDING COMFORT. CHAPTER I. Called to Australasia--The Modern Imitators of Job's Friends--Our "Special Instruction" is to "Build up the Kingdom of God in those Lands"--A Disappointment ends in a Blessing--Promises by an Apostle which were Literally Fulfilled--We Reach Sydney, I am Separated From my Companion. CHAPTER II. Labor which Brought Little Compensation--A Mysterious Call to New Zealand--Attacked by an Evil Spirit--The Visitation Thrice Repeated--Meeting the Brother of a Friend--On Board the _Wakatipu_ Bound for New Zealand. CHAPTER III. An Irreverent Company of Passengers--Sickness and a Horror of Life Fall Upon Me--A "Helpful Vision"--"Only be True"--Invoking the Name of Christ--A Jolly Singer and a Jolly Song--Landing at Port Littleton--Strange Recognition of Brother Nordstrand--His Dream Concerning Me. CHAPTER IV. Reason for my Sudden Call to Leave Sydney--The Little Old Lady of the _Wakatipu_--She had Waited a Generation to Renew her Covenants--Another "Helpful Vision"--A Mysterious Half-Sovereign--Saved from Death in a Swift River. CHAPTER V. Some Old Members of the Church--The Spirit Prompts Promises to Them which are Literally Fulfilled--Help from a Catholic Who is Suddenly Converted and Who as Suddenly Apostatizes--A Spontaneous Prophecy--The Journey Home--A Careful Observer--Safe in Zion. TRAITORS. Solemn Warnings--A Traitor can Never be Anything but Despicable--Examples of the Past. PREFACE. The very encouraging reports we are constantly receiving from various parts of the country concerning the vast amount of good accomplished by these small publications, induces us to issue the fourteenth book, with the sincere hope that it may not be less interesting or instructive than those which have preceded it.