Growing Stronger From that Moment

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John Ray Young was a boy living in Nauvoo when he became sick. Not being able to recover he became week. Others, including church leaders prayed for him. What caused him to make a turnaround?

a.                  Sent to the hospital in Nauvoo

b.                  Baptism for healing

c.                   Joseph Smith running his fingers through his hair

d.                  Doctor Willard Richard’s medicine

Yesterday’s answer:

A   Her family had nothing to eat

From the life of Thomas Franklin King:   My parents joined the Church in September, 1830. They both died in 1876, and were previous to their death the oldest living couple belonging to the Church. They were intimately acquainted with the Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum, and passed through all the trials and persecutions that were heaped upon the Saints in the early rise of the Church. In 1845 they moved from Ohio to Illinois and bought a farm in Morley’s Settlement, a short distance from Nauvoo. They raised one crop there when they were told by some of their neighbors that the mob intended to drive all the “Mormons” out. My father was sick at the time. Previous to this the mob had driven out all the able bodied men among the Saints, including my brother George E., who was about seventeen years old. When the mob came, they told my mother to leave at once. Father was not able to help. All the team my parents had at that time was one horse and a one horse wagon. My mother moved some of the furniture into the cornfield, and put the beds and some of the light things into the wagon, after which we all got on top of the load. As soon as we had started, the mob set fire to the house. We went to Nauvoo and found shelter in a large frame house that was already occupied by three other families. After we were housed, my mother took my brother Alma, who was twelve years old, and returned to the farm to get the balance of our furniture. There was a good crop of corn on the farm ready to gather. As we had no bread, my mother and brother went again to the farm to get a load of corn. The mob threatened her at that time, but she told them she had no bread for her children and must have it. They threatened to shoot her if she did not leave, but she told them to shoot away, as she would just a soon die as to stay. When she returned the third time one of the mobbers put a gun to her breast and said: “If you return again, I will shoot you.” As she thought she had secured enough to last us through the winter she did not return any more.

Andrew Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia (Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Company, 1914), 81-82.