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-promoting series, by James A. Little. Designed for the instruction and encouragement of young Latter-Day Saints

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 47

G. A. SMITH'S ADVICE. 45 ' ' Do not permit the brethren to part with their guns and ammunition, but save them against the hour of need. " Seek the Spirit of the Lord to direct you; and that He may qualify you for every duty, is the prayer of your fellow-laborer in the gospel of salvation, BRIGHAM YOUNG." Early in the autumn of 1857, Apostle George A. Smith visited the settlements in Southern Utah. He informed the Saints that a United States army was on the way to Utah. What the result would be, he said he did not know. He advised the people to be saving with their grain, and not sell any to travelers to feed their teams ; for they could live on grass better than our women and children. He thought that all we could afford to do, under the circumstances, was to fur-nish travelers with bread. That if we would not deny the gospel, we might yet suffer much persecution, and be com-pelled to hide up in the mountains. " At all events," said he, " bread is good to have." When President Smith returned to Salt Lake City, Brother Thales Haskell and I accompanied him. On our way we camped over night on Corn Creek, twelve miles south of Fill-more, with a party of emigrants from Arkansas, traveling on what was then known as the southern route to California. They inquired of me about the road, and wrote the informa-tion down that I gave them. They expressed a wish to lay by at some suitable place to recruit their teams before crossing the desert. I recom-mended to them, for this purpose, the south end of the Mountain Meadows, three miles from where my* family resided. After our arrival in Salt Lake City, news reached there that this company of emigrants, on their way south, had behaved badly, that they had robbed hen- roosts, and been guilty of other irregularities, and had used abusive language to those who had remonstrated with them, It was also reported that they threatened, when the army came into the north end of the Territory, to get a good outfit from the weaker settlements in the south.