A LIFE SKETCH, CONTAINING A FEW MORAL LESSONS.
By W. B.
LACK OF EDUCATION—EARLY MARRIAGE—RESISTING TEMPTATION—GRAIN INCREASED BY THE POWER OF GOD—ANSWER TO PRAYER—LARGE FAMILY, RESULT OF EARLY MARRIAGE.
Thinking some incidents from my experience might be of interest to the young Latter-day Saints, I submit them for their perusal.
I was born in the year 1835, was reared in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and shared in its persecutions. At the age of thirteen, in 1848, I drove a team from Winter Quarters to Salt Lake Valley without any accident worth mentioning. The team consisted of five cows and one ox, making three yoke of cattle.
After we arrived and got fairly settled, my parents died, and left me without an education, as was the case with many more young folks who were driven with the Saints, and on this account deprived of schooling.
In this condition, I concluded to make a home for myself.
Before I was seventeen, it being the counsel to marry young, I went to President Young, as I was well acquainted with him, and told him what I thought of doing.
He advised me to get married.
I took his counsel, got married and lived with my wife's folks for a short time, as they requested.