A String of Pearls

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Various. A String of Pearls

AMONG THE PONCAS

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

ANECDOTES OF ELDER GRANT

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

WAR HILL

SIGN-SEEKING

MISSIONARY INCIDENTS

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

JOURNEY ACROSS THE PLAINS

STORY OF A HAT

A PROPHECY AND ITS FULFILLMENT

GUIDED BY PROVIDENCE

FULFILLMENT OF PROMISE

"YOU SHALL NOT BE CONFOUNDED."

AN EFFECTIVE PLEA

A LIFE SKETCH, CONTAINING A FEW MORAL LESSONS

CASES OF MIRACULOUS HEALING

ANSWER TO PRAYER

JOSEPH SMITH'S FIRST PRAYER

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A few days after the organization of the "Mormon" Battalion, and when it had left Council Bluffs for Fort Leavenworth, it was decided in the council of the authorities of the Church that Brother George Miller (Bishop) should raise a company and endeavor to cross the Rocky Mountains that fall.

At this time I was traveling and living with the family of Bishop Miller. I had been suffering with fever and ague for two months previous, but a few days before we arrived at Council Bluffs the fever left me, when my legs commenced to swell and finally broke out into sores, some of which were over an inch deep. I had five on my right and four on my left leg. These caused me much pain; but the Lord blessed me with His Spirit, and I did not feel in the least discouraged.

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The women among the Indians have most of the work to do. They put up and pull down the lodges, get the wood, cook, make and mend their clothes, and dress all the robes and skins, for their own use and for the market.

The men hunt, look after their horses, fight, if necessary, smoke, eat and sleep.

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