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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 60 |
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Show 58 A REMARKABLE VISION. fell a distance of twenty or thirty feet to the ground. I was badly bruised, and was carried to my house for dead, or nearly so. I came to my senses about 8 o'clock in the evening, and threw off from my stomach quite a quantity of blood. 1 requested the brethren who were standing around to adminis-ter to me, and they did so. From the time I fell from the tree until then was lost to me, so far as earthly matters were concerned. During the time my body lay in this condition, it seemed to me that I went up from the earth and looked down upon it, and it appeared like a dark ball. The place where I was, seemed very desirable to remain in. It was divided into compartments by walls, from which appeared to grow out vines and flowers, displaying an endless variety of colors. I thought I saw my father there, but separated from me. I wished him to let me into his compartment, but he replied that it was not time for me to come to him. I then asked why I could not come. He answered uYour work is not yet done." I attempted to speak about it again, but he motioned me away with his hand, and, in a moment I was back to this earth. I saw the brethren carrying my body along, and it was loathsome to me in appearance. A day or two after my fall from the tree, I was carried to the Mountain Meadows where I was fed on goat's milk and soon recovered. In the autumn of this year, 1858, I received instructions from President Brigham Young to take a company of men and visit the Moquis, or Town Indians, on the east side of the Colorado River. The object of this visit was to learn something of the character and condition of this people, and to take advantage of any opening there might be to preach the gospel to them and do them good. My companions for this trip were Brothers Dudley and Thomas Leavitt, two of my brothers, Frederick and William Hamblin, Samuel Knight, Ira Hatch, Andrew Gibbons, Benjamin Knell, Amnion M. Tenney ( Spanish interpreter)^ |