CHAPTER IV.

Ashamed of my appearance--Introduced to my numerous relatives--Allowed to sleep with the boys--Homesick--Set to work and made contented--Baptized and set apart for a mission--Return to Iowa--Meet my relatives--My Grandfather's confession and testimony--His exhortation and request--Return home with my brother Isaac, thus fulfilling my Father's prediction--The lessons I learned by my experience.

SAVED BY PROVIDENCE.

Appointed to take charge of a company of emigrants--Leave London for America--Surrounded by a thick fog--The Captain unable to take observations--The fog lifts--Saved from being dashed upon the rocks--Thank God for our deliverance.

WARNINGS OF THE SPIRIT.

Impressed by the Spirit not to go on a steamer, after arranging for my passage--Rush ashore before the boat starts--Boat snagged and sunk in the Mississippi--Warned by the Spirit not to meet an appointment--Urged by my friends, I start--Aversion to going so strong, I gallop back--Friends unable to account for my fears--Robbery at the house where I was to have gone--Saved from suspicion by obeying the voice of the Spirit.

ROBERT HAMILTON.

Challenged to debate by Dr. Waltholl--His discomfiture and defeat--Dr. Scott attempts to retrieve the Campbellite cause, and offers another challenge--Resorts to the whiskey bottle--Elder Hamilton scores him for it.

HOW SUCCESS IS GAINED.

Elders to go out two and two--Young missionaries inclined to shirk--Elder Moses Thatcher--His diffidence--The way he was broken in--His success--Elder McAllister--His backwardness in speaking--Forced into it--His testimony--Elder Coray's experience--Promises of the Lord proved true.

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