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Show IX signature by Apostle George Q. Cannon. Taylor then sat down and wrote a revelation -- subject of the conversation of the night before, according to Wooley -- denying any document which would abolish 'the New and Everlasting Covenant.' Transcriptions of the revelation existed, Wooley claimed -- in Taylor's handwriting! True, Church officials could not afford to acknowledge the document, but they knew it existed. Wooley convinced Grandfather that he must search his soul about the Principle. Upon returning to his unsuspecting Charlotte, Grandfather was a changed man. He had repented of his salacious stories, had abandoned his secular ambitions, and now was filled with a yearning to "serve the Lord." This spiritual wave rose to a new crest when his father's plural wife -- "Aunt" Johanna -- rose in testimony meeting and predicted Harvey was destined to Apostleship in the Church. Then, one night, Grandfather dreamed that he met a lovely blonde woman in a southland near a river, and that he took her by the hand and called her Evelyn. A year later, he actually met my grandmother --on the steps of the Star Valley Wardhouse. Flustered by this materialized dream, he made something of a fool of himself, blurting inanities to her parents, forgetting to be civil to her, and then, realizing his blunder, returning to grasp her hand with an enthusiasm that embarrassed everyone. He embarked on the delicate business of courting Evelyn |
