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.
My Covenant With the Lord—My Sister Desires Baptism—My Brother's Threat—Visit of Hyrum Smith—My Sister Baptized—I Break My Covenant—My Father's Dream—My Baptism—Exhortation to the Young—Spiritual Gifts Received—Meeting Disturbed by Mobs—After Talking to Them They Become Quiet and Leave the Place—Some of the Mob Join the Church—The Leader of the Mob Dies Suddenly—Mobbings Cease.
Ordained to the Priesthood—Invited to Preach—I Make Up a Sermon on my Way—Sermon Apparently a Failure to Me—My Hearers Satisfied With It—Abused by a Baptist Minister—He Desires a Sign—A Sign Promised and Fulfilled—Blessings Received in the Kirtland Temple—Words of the Prophet Joseph—Their Fulfilment—An Incident in Missouri—Literal Fulfillment of a Prediction Uttered by Joseph Smith—His Patriotism—Strange Phenomenon—Its Effect.
A Case of Palsy Healed—Its Effect on the People—Mr. Bridge's Unbelief—The Case of Widow Cade—She is Partially Cured by Faith—Tempts the Lord and Dies—I am Called on a Mission to Europe—Terrible Sea-storm—The Prayers of the Elders are Heard and the Winds Cease—We Arrive Safely in a Badly-Shattered Ship.
I Go to Switzerland—God's Power Manifested in My Behalf—A Prophecy Fulfilled—Condition of the Swiss Mission—Where Elders were Expelled Evil Spirits Take Possession—Karl G. Maeser Writes Me a Letter—I Return it, Thinking it is a Ruse to Entrap Me—I Receive it Again— Brother Maeser's Faith and Baptism—Elders Partake of Poisoned Food—Are Restored to Health—My Mission Ends.