Elder Chas. C. Rich was going from Sacramento to San Bernardino with a company of brethren. He had in his possession a large amount of money to make payment on their land purchase. This was known to some road agents in the vicinity, who gathered a company of robbers and went on ahead of Brother Rich and lay in ambush, intending to kill the "Mormons" and rob them of their money.
Before reaching the company of robbers Brother Rich came to a by-path or trail. The Spirit then told him to take that path.
The brethren with him marveled at his course, not knowing that enemies awaited them, but they arrived in safety at San Bernardino with their lives and their money, while the robbers wondered why their prey did not come.
CHAPTER XXVII.
RESULT OF NOT OBEYING THE VOICE OF THE SPIRIT—LOST IN A SNOWSTORM—SAVED IN ANSWER TO PRAYER—REVELATION TO MISSIONARIES NECESSARY—REVELATIONS IN THE ST. GEORGE TEMPLE.
I will now give an example from my own experience of the result of not obeying the voice of the Spirit.
Some years since I had part of my family living in Randolph, Rich County. I was there on a visit, with my team in the month of December.
One Monday morning my monitor, the Spirit watching over me, said: "Take your team and go home to Salt Lake City."
When I named it to my family who were at Randolph they urged me strongly to stop longer.