CHAPTER I.

Account of My Ancestors--My Birth--Remarkable Vision--Its Effect Upon Those Who Heard of It--My Father and Grand-Father Become Interested in Reading the Scriptures--My Grand-Father's Prophecy--His Dislocated Shoulder Replaced by the Power of God--My Grand-Father's Vision and Death--"Mormon" Elders Visit the Neighborhood--I Go to Hear Them Preach--Believe Their Doctrines--My Father Opposed to the Elders.