Elder Taylor: "Yes, Brother Pratt, that's true."
Elder Pratt: "Well, I am about to publish my 'Voice of Warning' and 'Millennial Poems,' I am very much in need of money, and if you could furnish me two or three hundred dollars I should be very much obliged."
Elder Taylor: "Well, Brother Parley, you are welcome to anything I have, if it will be of service to you."
Elder Pratt: "I never saw the time when means would be more acceptable."
Elder Taylor: "Then you are welcome to all I have."
And putting his hand into his pocket Elder Taylor gave him his copper cent. A laugh followed.
"But I thought you gave it out that you had plenty of money," said Parley.
"Yes, and so I have," replied Elder Taylor. "I am well clothed, you furnish me plenty to eat and drink and good lodging; with all these things and a penny over, as I owe nothing, is not that plenty?"
That evening at a council meeting Elder Pratt proposed that the brethren assist Elder Taylor with means to pay his passage to England as Brother Woodruff was prepared and desired to go. To this Elder Taylor objected and told the brethren if they had anything to give to let Parley have it, as he had a family to support and needed means for publishing. At the close of the meeting Elder Woodruff expressed his regret at the course taken by Elder Taylor, as he had been waiting for him, and at last had engaged his passage.
Elder Taylor: "Well, Brother Woodruff, if you think it best for me to go, I will accompany you."