John Horner
John
Horner states in his autobiography that he raised how many pounds of potatoes
in California during 1853?
A)
220 lbs.
B)
2,200 lbs.
C)
220,000 lbs.
D)
22 million lbs.
Yesterday’s
answer:
a.
A Methodist Class minister
I labored with the company of pioneers to
prepare the way for the Saints through Iowa, after which I had the privilege of
returning to Nauvoo for my family, which consisted of my wife and three
children I moved them out into Iowa, 200 miles, where I left them, and returned
100 miles to settlements, in order to obtain food and other necessaries.
I
was taken sick, and sent for my family to return to me. My wife and two
children were taken sick the day after their arrival. We found shelter in a
miserable hut, some distance from water.
One
day I made an effort to get some water for my suffering family, but failed
through weakness. Night came on and my family were burning with fever and
calling for water.
These very trying circumstances called up some bitter feelings within
me. It seemed as though in this, my terrible extremity, the Lord permitted the
devil to try me for just then a Methodist class leader came along, and remarked
that I was in a very bad situation. He assured me that he had a comfortable
house that I could move into, and that he had plenty of everything, and would
assist me if I would renounce “Mormonism.” I refused and he passed on.
I
afterwards knelt down and asked the Lord to pity us in our miserable condition,
and to soften the heart of someone to administer to us in our affliction.
About
an hour after this, a man by the name of William Johnson came with a three
gallon jug full of water, set it down and said: “I came home this evening,
weary, having been working with a threshing machine during the day, but, when I
lay down I could not sleep; something told me that you were suffering for
water. I took this jug, went over to Custer’s well and got this for you. I feel
now as thought I could go home and sleep. I have plenty of chickens and other
things at my house that are good for sick people. When you need anything I will
let you have it.” I knew this was from the Lord in answer to my prayer.
The following day the quails came out of the thickets, and were so
easily caught that I picked up what I needed without difficulty. I afterwards learned
that the camps of the Saints had been supplied with food in the same way.
James A. Little, Jacob Hamblin in Three Mormon Classics, Preston Nibley, comp. (Salt
Lake City: Bookcraft, 1988), 215-216.
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