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Jacob Hamblin, a narrative of his personal experience, as a frontiersman, missionary to the Indians and explorer, [microform] disclosing interpositions of Providence, severe privations, perilous situations and remarkable escapes. Fifth book of the faith-p - Page 33 |
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Show MISSION TO SOUTHERN UTAH. 31 CHAPTER V. MISSION TO SOUTHERN UTAH LOCATE AT HARMONY REMARKABLE PROPHECIES OF H. C. KIMBALL FUL-FILLED INDIANS HARVESTING INDIAN " MEDICINE MAN" INDIAN WOMAN HEALED UNDER OUR ADMINIS-TRATION ACCOMPANY A HUNTING PARTY A FIGHT FOR A SQUAW, IN WHICH I AM COMPELLED TO TAKE PART SICKNESS TAKE MY FAMILY TO SOUTHERN UTAH BUILD A FORT ON THE SANTA CLARA RAIN IN ANSWER TO PRAYER COUNSEL FROM PRESIDENT YOUNG WE REFUSE TO ADMINISTER TO THE SICK UNTIL THEY ARE WASHED A SICK BOY DIES, AND THE INDIANS . GROW MAD AND THREATEN US WE FOLLOW AND PACIFY THEM. AT the April conference of 1854, I was called, with a num-ber of others, on a mission to the Indians in Southern Utah. Taking a horse, cow, garden seeds and some farming tools, I joined in with Brother Robert Ritchie, and was soon on my way. We commenced operations at a place we called Harmony, twenty miles south of Cedar City, in Iron County. I made it my principal business to learn the Indian language, and become familiar with their character. About the end of May of that year, President Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Parley P. Pratt and others to the number of twenty persons, came to visit us. President Young gave much instruction about conducting the mission and building up the settlement we had commenced. He said if the Elders wanted influence with the Indians, they must associate with them in their expeditions. Brother Kimball prophesied, that, if the brethren were united, they would be prospered and blessed, but if they per-mitted the spirit of strife and contention to come into their midst, the place would come to an end in a scene of blood-shed. |