CHAPTER III.

Start for Nauvoo--Taken Severely Ill--The Lord Answers my Prayer for Relief--Pass through Carthage--In Nauvoo "The Beautiful," but Almost Deserted City--Scene on the Iowa Shore--Cross the Mississippi--Curious Make-up of the Exiles' Teams--The Bad Roads--Stuck in the Mud--Repairing Camps--Good Order Maintained--Unnecessary Killing of Game Forbidden--Reach Grand River and Put In a Crop--Learn of the Call for the Mormon Battalion--Apostles as Recruiting Officers--Call for Volunteers--Response by the Camp--Received into the church by Baptism--Filled with the Love of the Gospel--Get the Spirit to Enlist--Consult my Relatives and Ezra T. Benson--An Elder's Promise--Join the Mormon Battalion.