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Show Havh'lg thus told of his dream to his landlady , Mr. Morgan said: ''Frankly , Mrs. Heywood, I am not looking for e vidence of. the civinity of· Mo.rrnonism or the authenticity of the Book of Mormon! but l would like to know. what you think of My dtearn. '1 ln answer to his inquiry , without hesitancy, Mrs. Heywood made reply : 11Mr . Morgan, l think 1 can give you s -ome light concerning you.r dream. I think the time is not distant when you will join our church; that in due time you will be called to do missionary work in the Southern States , and the time will come when, while engaged in your missionary labors, you will be traveling southerly through Georgia toward the city of Rome: that on this journey, you will come to the identical fork in the t~ on. r,~ you saw in your dream. Brigham Young will not be there , but you must remember the advice he gave you. in your dream; discontinue the road that will lead to R·ome and take the left hand fork in compliance with his advice. '' Mr. Morgan laughingly thanked her for her in-tel" preta.tion of r is dream ancl in the activities of his school work he soon forgot the entire incident. A year or so later , after John Morgan had joined the church, he was called t o labor as a .missionary hi the Southern States. Being anxious , however, to first present the Gospel to his own people in Indiana and Illinois, he received permission from the Church Authorities to labor there . At that time missions in the United States were limited to one year, and during that period he labored with great zeal in his ministry, bllt with only mediocre success. Part of the time he had as his companion Elder Joseph Standing, who a few years later was m.artyred when doing missionary work in Georgia. |
