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Show --7-- home to her family, by placing a bed i~ a sleigh, as the summer had passed a.ncl it was now good sleighing, covered her closely with blankets( ••. ) beside, sent many comforts to those at home, as they had. often ( ••. ) a.uri1 g her stay. JJy mother li:·,eered until J·an. '42, then passed away. Calling her c.hildreJ"J. around her 1Jed , she bore a faithful testimony as to her ( ••. )ions that ~rose:9h Smith vvas a :Prophet of God, an(l that throllgh him the Gospel of the Son of Gocl had been restored in its fullness, whereby ( .•. ) return into the presence of the Father; exhorted her children ( ••• ) epart from the truth, but to live so tlu_:;, t she might meet them ( ••• ) ld where there would be no more sorrow, no more suffering, ( ••• ) s of anguish at pronounciLg the sad word goodbye. She then closed her eyes and her sweet spi~it passed away, leaving a beautiful smile on her Jear face. It did not seem to us that it was possible she was dead, but only in a sweet sleep. When at length we were forced to believe she would never speak to us again we were in tbe depths of despair. Ten motherless children. ...~nd such a mother. The youngest ;.vas not yet tvvo years old. Wb.at were we to do? The prophet came to our rescue. He said: "If you remain here, Erothe~ Nalker , you will soon follow your wife. You must h(.q,ve a change of scene, a change of climate. YOLl have just such a· family as I could love. 1/Jy house shall be their horne. I will adopt them as my own. J?or the present I would advise you to sell your effects, place the little ones with some kind friends, and. the four elclest shall come to my house and 'be received and treated as my own chi lclren, and if I find. t_~le others are not content or not treated right, I vvill |
