CHAPTER III.

Removal to Nauvoo--Sickness--Miraculously healed--Acquire considerable property--Acquaintance with Joseph Smith--Missions to Albany, and the Eastern states; also, with Elder J. W. Crosby, to Nova Scotia--Preach in Jefferson Co., N. Y., and organize six Branches of the Church--Travel to New Brunswick--Invited to preach--Baptisms--Persecution--The Author waylaid by a mob, beaten, and left for dead--Attack on the house where he and Elder Crosby were in bed--The mob dispersed by Mrs. Shelton--They return and re--attack the house--Are dispersed by Mr. Shelton--Two Branches organized.