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Show 324 WESTERN WILDS. God, that not a flake of snow should fall upon them. " You will hear of storms to the right and to the left, but a way will be opened for you," Each hundred was then put under charge of a captain ; to each hundred there were nve round tents, twenty persons to a tent ; twenty hand- carts, one to five persons, and one " prairie schooner " drawn by three yoke of oxen, to haul the tents and provisions. All the clothing and bedding, seventeen pounds to each person, and all the cooking utensils, were upon the hand- carts, besides a hundred pound sack of flour to each. Thus equipped, rested by the delay and " strong in the promise of the Lord by the mouth of His elder," the second division set out from the Missouri the 18th of August, singing in cheerful concert : " A church without a prophet is not the church for me ; It has no head to lead it, in it I would not be; But I've a church not built by man, Cut from the mountain without hand, A church with gifts and blessings, oh, that's the church for me, Oh, that's the church for me, oh, that's the church for me. " The God that others worship is not the God for me; He has no parts nor body, and can not hear nor see; But I've a God that lives above, A God of Power and of Love, A God of Revelation, oh, that's the God for me. " A church without apostles is not the church for me ; It's like a ship dismasted afloat upon the sea; But I've a church that's always led By the twelve stars around its head, A church with good foundations, oh, that's the church for me. " The hope that Gentiles cherish is not the hope for me, It has no hope for knowledge, far from it I would be ; But I've a hope that will not fail, That reaches safe within the vail, Which hope is like an anchor, oh, that's the hope for me." But neither hope nor faith changed the harsh climate of the high plains and wind- swept plateaus ; and seven weeks of travel left our friends still four hundred miles from " Zion," in the heart of the high Rockies, almost out of provisions, worn down, sick, apparently for-gotten of God and abandoned by man. It was then the inborn noble-ness of the English race shone out. Men toiled on day after day, hauling and even carrying women and children, wading ice- cold streams with the feeble in their arms, in many cases carrying their little children in the morning and themselves dying before night. Fainting fathers took the scant rations from their lips and fed their crying children; mothers carried their babes till they sank exhausted in the snow, and young men nerved themselves to suffer every thing |