Ashamed to Pay Tithing—Loss of Crop—Lesson He Learned By It—Potatoes Purchased to Pay Delinquent Tithing—No Loss of Potato Crop Since.
Farming on Shares—A New Vocation—Future Home Shown in Vision—Home Recognized When First Seen in Utah—Reputation Gained as a Faithful and Thorough Worker—Providential Fulfillment of Vision—Home Viewed as a Sacred Heritage.
Ambitious to Work in a Goal Mine—Day Spent in Mine as a Spectator—Fatal Accident—His Narrow Escape from Being a Victim.
Resort to Mining—Caught in a Snowslide—Carried a Mile Down the Mountain As If Fired From a Catapult—Miraculous Escape—Fails to Find Companion—Return to Mine and Then Home—Companion's Subsequent Escape.
Father John Parkin a Pugilist—Defends a Mormon Elder—Shelters Him From a Storm and Learns Something of Mormonism—Whole Family Embrace the Gospel.