Scraps of Biography: Tenth Book of the Faith-Promoting Series. Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day SaintsVarious
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Scraps of Biography: Tenth Book of the Faith-Promoting Series. Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints
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Latter Day Saints -- Biography
"The Lord gave me a portion of the interpretation of what I had said,
which is as follows: `I suppose you Indian warriors think you are going
to kill us. Don't you know the Great Spirit is watching you, and knows
everything in your hearts? We have come out here to gather some of
our Father's fruit. We have not come to injure you: and if you harm
us, or injure one hair of our heads, the Great Spirit will smite you
to the earth, and you shall not have power to breath another breath.
We have been driven from our homes and so have you. We have come out
here to do you good and not to injure you. We are the Lord's people,
and so are you; but you must cease your murders and wickedness. The
Lord is displeased with it and will not prosper you if you continue in
it. You think you own all this land, this timber, this water and all
these horses. You do not own one thing on earth, not even the air you
breathe. It all belongs to the Great Spirit.'"
In the latter part of June, 1848, Elder Tanner fitted up five teams and
wagons, and with eighteen months' provisions, started for Salt Lake,
celebrating the 4th of July, on the Elk Horn. Between Wood River and
Laramie a six year old grand-son fell from the tongue of a wagon loaded
with about 3,500 pounds. Both wheels passed obliquely over his bowels,
and he died in twenty minutes. With the exception of this sad accident,
the journey was prosperous, and he arrived in Salt Lake Valley on the
17th of October, and located in South Cottonwood.
In the Autumn of 1849, he was afflicted more or less with rheumatism,
which continued to increase on him till the first of January, 1850,
when he was confined to his bed and suffered severely until the 13th
day of April, when he died "the death of the righteous." He was the
father of twenty children, and has left an example worthy of imitation
by his numerous posterity and by the youth of Zion everywhere.
INCIDENTS OF EXPERIENCE.
BY DANIEL TYLER.
CHAPTER I.
ACCOUNT OF MY ANCESTORS--MY BIRTH--REMARKABLE VISION--ITS EFFECT UPON
THOSE WHO HEARD OF IT--MY FATHER AND GRAND-FATHER BECOME INTERESTED
IN READING THE SCRIPTURES--MY GRAND-FATHER'S PROPHECY--HIS DISLOCATED
SHOULDER REPLACED BY THE POWER OF GOD--MY GRAND-FATHER'S VISION AND
DEATH--"MORMON" ELDERS VISIT THE NEIGHBORHOOD--I GO TO HEAR THEM
PREACH--BELIEVE THEIR DOCTRINES--MY FATHER OPPOSED TO THE ELDERS.
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