He said: "Brother Woodruff, I have no money, but I have an empty purse, which I will give you." He brought it to me, and I thanked him for it.
We went a few rods further, and met Brother Heber C. Kimball, in the same condition, also hewing a log, towards building a cabin.
He said: "As Parley has given you a purse, I have got a dollar I will give you to put in it."
He gave me both a dollar and a blessing.
We drove sixteen miles across a prairie, and spent the night with a Brother Merrill. The day following we rode ten miles, to a Brother Perkins', and he took us in his wagon to Macomb, and from thence to Brother Don Carlos Smith's.
I rode four hours during the day over a very rough road of stones and stumps, lying on my back in the bottom of the wagon, shaking with the ague, and I suffered much.
We held a meeting in a grove near Don Carlos Smith's and here Elder Taylor baptized George Miller, who afterwards was ordained a Bishop.
At the meeting the Saints gave us nine dollars, and George Miller gave us a horse to help us on our journey.
I rode to Rochester with Father Coltrin, where I had an interview with several families of the Fox Island Saints, whom I had brought up with me from Fox Islands, in 1838. I spent several days with them and at Springfield, where Elder Taylor published fifteen hundred copies, in pamphlet form, of a brief sketch of the persecutions and sufferings of the Latter-day Saints, inflicted by the inhabitants of Missouri.
We sold our horse, and in company with Father Coltrin, Brother Taylor and myself left Springfield, and continued our journey.