CHAPTER I.

Sickly Condition when Young--Healed According to Elder Patten's Prediction--Labor as a Missionary with Elder Woodruff--Severe Sickness--Healed Under the Administration of my Brethren--A Mission to the Southern States--Removal to Far West--Mission to Missouri and Arkansas--Opposed by a Baptist Deacon--Terrible Judgment upon Himself and Family--John Houston, the Infidel--Far West Besieged--Taken Prisoner.