Show from the millennial Mil lenial star A GREAT MIRACLE NARRATIVE OF I 1 on the ad july 1839 1 entered on board the gT terror error commodore sir john franklin ery being then about to set out on a voyage of discovery cry for a northwest passage to india upon returning to england BO we landed at bermuda on the irth of july 1843 1643 and andin in the after noon of the sames samer day a terrible thunder storm occurred in which I 1 was suddenly deprived of my hearing and speech at the same time five of my comrades viz john ennis nn william collins colling john rogers richard king and william simms were summoned into eternity I 1 remained insensible fifteen days perfectly unconscious of all that was passing around me but upon the return of reason came the tho dreadful conviction that I 1 was ivaa deprived of two of my faculties I 1 well remember the period and shall for ever continue to do so language cannot describe the awful sensations lat lit that pervaded my mind when I 1 became fully sensible of the reality of my condition I 1 will here remark that the subject of reli rell religion glon gion had never troubled my mind nor did the calamity I 1 was called to suffer suiter awaken any feeling akin to it nevertheless erth eless I 1 felt certain of gratitude that I 1 had no not net t met with the sanie sanle same fate as my more unfortunate companions yet I 1 musto my shame confess that it was wag not directed to the great disposer of all events who could have taken my life as thew those of my companions had he willed it but bat it wa was not his design I 1 was spared and am now a living w cf his hib loving kindness to the nest rnest abandoned bando ned sinners dinners sin tin ners it if they will turn and seek his face at that time I 1 was uras about nineteen years old after remaining at bermuda for about three weeks we again set act sail for england and reached readied chatham on the dec I 1 remained there only fourteen days anter after alich which I 1 went to london and by the kind assistance of some gentlemen entered the deaf and dumb school in old kent road chere whore I 1 remained for ten weeks but bat D not noi 0 t lik inythe confinement and being 9 from h horre hornc 0 me I 1 became dissatisfied and unhappy anci ancl ane to 0 o leave it and accordingly did so I 1 then went to george locks lochs oxford anns arms silver street reading with wilh whom I 1 lived eight eighteen eert months supporting myself the whole of that thet period upon the wages I 1 earned on board the terror I 1 afterwards went to rugby not to remain there but on the tiu way to my mother at stroud glourest 1 I wiil will v ill lii here h rp nl nilta dilta n liaf it a c r rii nine nane orera ity ff or v aielt I 1 u i as m mil 1 1 V to 0 iii t r I 1 T hinr flarty fy f stepi al pr d 1 mf niti iiii a ditl 1 rn ww i j t sor bor something to drink there we weme were re ige gentlemen in the parlor who s ein eln that I 1 was w is dumb motioned mf me to them an 1 put nut pu ani ann n y rip rie yip etl sli cons ii in in VT w r ti tn ig v winch I 1 i t c h I 1 i v opil epil ed ni i the alne fiur 1111 iiii nw nin nii ni i n r V h I 1 I 1 i 1 1 1 11 f i f of the men went ont oat and brought in a policeman who hauled me we away to the lockup lock up in which place I 1 was kept all that ni night olit alit the next day and we the following ni night ht and ua the morning ningon of the second mond day f I 1 was taken before a magistrate who ordered me roc to be taken to a doctor where I 1 underwent an ly having my tongue cut in two places he became satisfied that I 1 was both braf deaf and dumb and then I 1 was discharged from the treatment I 1 had received I 1 was ili iii ter mined to go to another of the magistrates of that town to whom I 1 related by whitin writing 6 wll wil t had transpired he said very little ottlo t i mia cat more than that he would write to lond tn respecting it and I 1 have since learned from a gent hulan bulan that the magi magis osta olta who exa eca exam nned ned mp nae lias has been remove d fan fin his office I 1 then conan aed my bourm j burm ti stroud ahn li I 1 reached wit houtan fi rin conven anre and reina relna ned there tv two 0 da d I 1 then woot w to ta newport Monmouth hire and cocup d my time in n teaching the tho thodi di af it and dumb ep habet fira fi r a bout three yari years yuri y urs uri at the end f which I 1 became acquainted with the latt lat r day saint saints at that tinn tinto I 1 i ns as lodging at a i public house houge kept by jaine jamrs 9 D durbin urbin sign i f the G golden olden lion pento ii ill lii onelli c omers of this house becat b c cit cli ii 10 e d etli v th me and prevailed upon we ulc to go to liv livi with him and his hig brother wh who was wag as a ironic r of the latter day saint a 9 c arch thou theu I 1 first erst beame b came acquainted with ith the doctrine doc triin taught by this people by r by means of the finger alphabet I 1 continued to inv dinv mv digate them for about three in ith nth when w in n I 1 f it convinced of the truth of those doctrines which have auve since become so 0 o beneficial t r y temp rai yai ral Tal and eternal on th sd sep I 1 had been by nu a is of the def dij and dumb dziubal at chabet convirs iii freely with sime syme of the saints and had hid tully fally determine det ermini ermint d to be baptized that awn rig ng therefore th I 1 expressed exar exor essed vj try desire to receive reccio the ordin ordinance anee of baptis baptism and was talen talea to the canal early on the mr mr r ning ming ningon of the am 23 ad and I 1 atiz alii atit d an the mine name of the father and ind holy ghost and upi api n my head ernert erner in it from the wat katr r I 1 liaf iia bi lia 11 f the tile voices cf of pt i ions upon V t 0 I 1 wing path pith and thi this was wis the tiu fi st at sound I 1 hat hai ha t heard since my rny deprival de on upon the batni bla i d ft t f bermuda in with iti i y deann ej i e also epy try speech and the f L at st words w ord ouli fi eol I 11 I 1 uttered were thank the tiu L rd A I 1 can nd hear a gain as wt of you I 1 sc arcely ned state my own marisc at tl Go coment c ment but such it was 11 ula iia d i if ippe ippei ars trw irs 11 irv llou ilous in n ny y sug own eyes not lii lir iii god is is p i red of powen power but tha tin 1 should i n ni i st at it in in mv rov ge oter ozer behalf alf lin lim aji 11 pr sen gen madd it s i 1 Y in i ne fi r ai n 1 1 i nce nee ti to h b a glorify ivi ivl ivine ne t ved there mission of i nv i v s it which 1 I L is c 13 above a 1 I earthly bles bies bassir in i jut also aiso vi i r try nt deafness ani aal dw rin mess mid niu r P i I 1 ican lean can hr hraf hrar r aa as distinct and peak a i 1 f f asi as I 1 v r did alf alt although liu ilu h I 1 II 11 d been bern A pi i i d of both buth these fi faculties cultic i 1 r upwards t f ltv liv year n D t beino being al IP lo to I 1 1 if f r he loudl b ra 2 or to ue ure my tor in in h the 1 11 A n T individual i v ti my ll 11 1 I T V AISH JO BERTS bents D E T S T abers of JOHN WALDEN cie lie churl churi JANE DUN V I 1 THOM THOMAS k S 14 14 I 1 aon on mf mt i jacobi JACOB 2 1 I bers |