Preparing to go up to Zion—First Meeting with President Young-Camp of Zion Starts—Numbers Magnified in the Eyes of Beholders—Remarkable Deliverance-Selfishness, and its Reward.
Advised to Remain in Missouri—A Desire to Preach—Pray to the Lord for a Mission—Prayer Answered—Sent on a Mission to Arkansas—Dangerous Journey through Jackson County—Living on Raw Corn, and Sleeping on the Ground—My First Sermon—Refused Food and Shelter by a Presbyterian Preacher—Wander through Swamps—Entertained by Indians.
A Journey of Sixty Miles without Food—Confronted by a Bear—Pass by Unharmed—Surrounded by Wolves—Lost in Darkness—Reach a Cabin—Its Inmates—No Supper—Sleep on the Floor—The Hardest Day's Work of my Life—Twelve Miles more without Breakfast—Breakfast and Abuse Together.
Our Anxiety to Meet a Saint—Journey to Akeman's—A Dream—Find Mr. Akeman a Rank Apostate—He Raises a Mob—Threatened with Tar, Feathers, etc.—I Warn Mr. Akeman to Repent—He Falls Down Dead at my Feet—I Preach his Funeral Sermon.
Make a Canoe—Voyage down the Arkansas River—Sleep in a Deserted Tavern—One Hundred and Seventy Miles through Swamps—Forty Miles a Day in Mud Knee-deep—A Sudden Lameness—Left alone in an Alligator Swamp—Healed, in Answer to Prayer—Arrival an Memphis—An Odd-looking Preacher—Compelled to Preach—Powerful Aid from the Spirit—Not what the Audience Expected.