CHAPTER XXXII.

People Gather at a Feast, and to Decide what to do with the Mormons--Threats to have Roast Missionary--Saints hold Prayer and Testimony Meeting--Kept Awake all Night--Council of Natives Decides to Roast and Eat me--Fire is Built--Men Sent to Drag me to the Council--Promises of Presidents Brigham Young and Willard Richards Come to my Mind--All Fear Is Banished--Saints and Their Enemies Ordered to Separate--All but Two Mormons Stand by me--Sublime Courage of a Native and His Wife--The Charge Against Me--I Appeal to the Bible, but our Enemies Refuse to be Guided by the Law of God--Notified of the Decision that I am to be Burned--Spirit of the Lord Rests upon me in Great Power, Inspiring me to Defy our Enemies--Spirit of Confusion Enters our Foes--They Quarrel and Fight With Each Other--Difficulty In Restraining Church Members--Deliverance which the Lord Wrought out for me--I am Allowed to proceed Unmolested--Meet a Member of the Council which Condemned me to Death--His Testimony that a Pillar of Light Descended from Heaven and Rested on me, Filling them with Fear--No more Anti-Mormon Councils--Natives show no Disposition to Receive the Gospel.