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Show 12 SCRAPS OF BIOGRAPHY; liquor, and never used them again during the remainder of his life. In the Spring of 1834 he fitted out his two sons, John J. and Nathan and sent them up to Kirtland, where they joined Zion's Oamp and went up to Missouri, with team, wagon and a A little later in the season he fitted out first class outfit. seven families, and sent them to Kirtland or to Missouri. he sold two large farms and two thousand and two hundred acres of timber land, preparatory to About the middle moving to Missouri in the coming Spring. of December he received an impression by dream or vision of the night, that he was needed and must go immediately to the Church in the West. He told his family of the instruction he In the the Fp.ll of same year had received and forthwith made preparations for the start, while his neighbors. with deep regret at what they considered but he an insane purpose, tried their utmost to dissuade him; could and crisis the in God nothing knew the will of present deter him from doing it. On Christmas day he commenced his journey with all his earthly effects, and in the dead of Winter traveled the distance of five hundred miles, to Kirtland where he arrived about the January, ] 835, on the Sabbath. On his arrival in Kirtland, he learned that 20th of at the time he impression that he must move immediately to the the Prophet Joseph and some of the brethren had Church, received the and asked the Lord to send them a means to assist" them to lift the mortgage on the farm upon which the temple was being ·built. The day after his arrival in Kirtland, by invitation from the met in brother prayer-meeting or some brethren with and his son, Sidney, met with the High Council, and were informed that the mortgage of the before mentioned Whereupon he loaned the farm was about to be foreclosed. prophet two thousand dollars and took his note on interest, with which amount the farm was redeemed. He loaned to the prophet, he Temple Committee, Hyrum Smith, Reynolds Cahoon and Jared Carter, thirteen thousand dollars in merchandize at cost This prices in N ew York, and took their note for the same. amount, and that loaned to the prophet, were not" included in his liberal donations ·to the building of the temple, from time |
