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Show Appendix 383 middle of the corral of wagons, and got up into it, and told the camp what he had seen while in the Spirit. It was glorious and grand to hear. Brother John and I stayed in Missouri one year and then returned to Kirtland. On our return to Kirtland, in consequence of a disappointment in getting money due us as we had expected, we were short of money for traveling purposes. We thought when we got tired of riding, and our horses needed rest, we would work a few days in the harvest field. The weather became wet, raining a little every day so that we could not get a day's work, and when our money was all gone but a dime, we were near Indianapolis, He accosted Indiana. us We and kindly, saw an old according man to the sitting on a fence leisurely. of the country, in going. When we had custom where we were from and where we were answered him, he said, "Then I take you are Mormons." "Yes, Sir," was the frank reply. "Well" he said, "I want you to go over to the house and feed and have some dinner, and I want to send for the Kirtland paper." To this we readily assented. When dinner was over, and we were quired ready to start, old friend asked if it our horse-back, much more so than expensive traveling on buggy and buying our more than we had expected. were not traveling with a quantity. We told him it was much Allow me to ask if you are not short of are young men. "You said, we were, and how we happened to be so, he him On telling money." hauled out a handful of silver and said, "Allow me to make a present of this." "No ,Sir," was the ready reply, "We have never taken a gift and have no need to do it now. If we were in reach of home, our father has plenty, and we are out for the first time. If you have confidence in us to loan us the money, we could send it back as soon as we arrive in Kirtland." To this he said, "You can have what money you want to take you home." I would take as little as we could do with least he should I then supplies in He thought and I put the sum plenty low. He said, "That is not enough; you had better have another ten dollars." And we found the old man was right. This good old man was old Father Eldredge General H. S. Eldredge's father. "But," he said, "Don't send back the it then." money. I will come out there in the fall and I can get and stopped with my father he and his son John He did come In that time they visitors. welcome two weeks, and they were most ere both baptized and took their money home with them. That act of kind ness will never be forgotten. When we arrived in Kirtland, we found our father and family well. (John Tanner had moved his family from Bolton to Kirtland while John re Joshua and Nathan were in Zion's Camp.) Brother John married and went (to Missouri) turned (to Missouri) that fall, and Sidney and family that fall. I remained and went to school in the winter, think we were a little roguish, - - - (1835?) ad studied the Hebrew. I attended the School of the Prophets, generally the Kirtland Temple, where the Spirit of the Lord was daily felt. m |
