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Show 89 each other, or even get a girl into "trouble", but, as one man said: "We lived the Gospel one hundred per cent. Not one man in town smoked except Parley Elder (Aunt Maggie's husband) and he was gone most of the time." What was worse, when they moved to Joseph Mama's brother Walter, who had been a paragon of perfection, took up the habit of tobacco. He and Papa would sit in the best room in the house and smoke one "coffin nail" after another. Mama preached to them a good deal, and they became more callous to her spirituality, teased her about reading the "Juvenile, " the Sunday School periodical. It became increasingly unbearable to her. One night she prayed that they would repent of their desire to smoke and would love to take part in the Church. That night she had a dream which stayed with her always: "West of the house we had fruit trees, " she related, speaking of the farmhouse, "as we also had on the east side. I dreamed I was out among the trees on the west side of the house. The river ran nearby. I dreamed I heard a trumpet sound across the river, then there was a great commotion all over the earth. I could see rocks falling off the hills east and south of me, and hear a sound as of the rushing of great waters. I ran into the house and out again. People were running to and fro so frightened they were begging the rocks to fall on them. I was too terrified to move. "Soon the air was filled with light so bright I couldn't look at it. I shaded my eyes with my hand, but the light penetrated the air and I |