Our visit to Preston--Our First Council in England, in 1840--We Take Different Fields of Labor--A Women Possessed of the Devil--Attempt to Cast it Out and Fail--Turn Out the Unbelievers, and then Succeed--The Evil Spirit Enters her Child--Commence Baptizing--The Lord Makes Known His Will to me. CHAPTER XXIV. My Journey to Herefordshire--Interview with John Benbow--The Word of the Lord Fulfilled to me--The Greatest Gathering into the Church Known among the Gentiles since its organisation in this Dispensation--A Constable Sent to Arrest me--I Convert and Baptize Him--Two Clerks Sent as Detectives to Hear me Preach, and both Embrace the Truth--Rectors Petition to have out Preaching Prohibited--The Archbishop's Reply--Book of Mormon and Hymn Book Printed--Case of healing. CHAPTER XXV. Closing Testimony--Good and Evil Spirits. CHAPTER XXVI. How to Obtain Revelation from God--Joseph Smith's Course--Saved from Death by a falling Tree, by Obeying the Voice of the Spirit--A Company of Saints Saved from a Steam-boat Disaster by the Spirit's Warning--Plot to Waylay Elder C. C. Rich and Party Foiled by the same Power. CHAPTER XXVII. Result of not Obeying the Voice of the Spirit--Lost in a Snowstorm--Saved, in answer to Prayer--Revelation to Missionaries Necessary--Revelation in the St. George Temple. CHAPTER XXVIII. Patriarchal Blessings and their Fulfillment--Predictions in my own Blessing--Gold-dust from California--Taught by an Angel--Struggle with Evil Spirits--Administered to by Angels--What Angels are sent to the Earth for. LEAVES FROM MY JOURNAL CHAPTER I. STRICTNESS OF THE "BLUE LAWS" OF CONNECTICUT--THE OLD PROPHET, MASON--HIS VISION--HIS PROPHECY--HEAR THE GOSPEL, AND EMBRACE IT--VISIT KIRTLAND AND SEE JOSEPH SMITH--A WORK FOR THE OLD PROPHET. For the benefit of the young Latter-day Saints, for whom the Faith-Promoting Series is especially designed, I will relate some incidents from my experience. I will commence by giving a short account of some events of my childhood and youth. I spent the first years of my life under the influence of what history has called the "Blue Laws" of Connecticut. No man, boy, or child of any age was permitted to play, or do any work from sunset Saturday night, until Sunday night. After sunset on Sunday evening, men might work, and boys might jump, shout, and play as much as they pleased. Our parents were very strict with us on Saturday night, and all day Sunday we had to sit very still and say over the Presbyterian catechism and some passages in the Bible. The people of Connecticut in those days thought it wicked to believe in any religion, or belong to any church, except the Presbyterian. They did not believe in having any prophets, apostles, or revelations, as they had in the days of Jesus, and as we now have in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.