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Show that existed in the Church in that little place. We had very good meetings and the spirit of God was with us and wo testified to each other, of the good things of the kingdom and all was well with us, i though the preachers charged and the mobs howled and the Devil raged rag-ed among them, yet the truth of the Gospel was still in our hearts and we were a United band of brethren breth-ren and sisters invery deed and it asked tho brother that was with mo to speak to us. As I sat down, my transgression wa3 plain to me and I saw that I, ' an unlearned youth, had undertaken to stand up, having a portion of the Holy priesthood priest-hood upon rue, and to ignore that 'and to speak to the people in my own only supposed ability, our merciful heavenly father showed me my own folly. I sat down and in my inmost soul asked God to j was our delight to do each other good, and the spirit of gathering together to-gether of the saints took possession of us and we had our desires Zion-ward, Zion-ward, and we sung the songs of Zion though we were in a land far away. Rhomlo. To be continued forgive me of that sin, and when brother Charles Morris, for that was his name, sat down, I again rose to my feet and told the people what I sought to do and they had seen how utterly I had failed. I am thankful to say that God again gave me a good portion of his Holy Spirit so that by that Spirit I was enabled to talk to the people, and I gave God the prais'e. This taught me this one true lessen, that feeble inan who has received the Holy priesthood, cannot co among the people in his own name and think they can teach the things of God in his own strength and do any good, either to the people or themselves, but God did, by His spirit, give the words of life to the people through me, though an unlearned boy. Soon after this, one Sunday evening, I went to visit vis-it a young sister named Ann Ell-wood, Ell-wood, who was very sick in bed. She heard me in the house and called her mother into the room where she was, and told her she wanted to see me. Accordingly I went into the room, her mother leaving leav-ing us alone, she said she desired me to administer to her and she would be better. I was only a Priest at the time but there were no Elders in the neighborhood then. I laid my hands on her head and prayed God the Eternal Father, in the name of Jesus Christ his Son, to remove the pain and to heal her up from all her afflictions. As soon as I took my hands off her head, she said, "now brother, if you will go into the other room,Iwill get up, for I am healed." I did' so and she dressed herself and came out of the bedroom, rejoicing and giving God tho praise. We sat up several hours that night and on the following morning I called at the house to enquire how she was, and I found her busy doing their house work and she said she never felt better in her lifef and she is now married to James White, a plasterer, plaster-er, in the 11th ward in Salt Lake City, and she delights to tell how God heard our prayers and answered answer-ed tli jm in her behalf. The members mem-bers in our branch increased until there were from 25 to 30. One of the young men, Wilson by name, who was baptized when I was, left the Church, but the mother of the other young man joined the Church. It was a pleasure to see tho love K A YOUTH'S EXPERIENCE. Continued. The next Tuesday evening I was appointed to hold meeting in the place where I was born and I began be-gan to flatter myself in my own mind that I could preach. Accordingly Accord-ingly I hunted up a text which I concluded that I would preach a sermon from. Accordingly I spent all the time I could get, the remainder re-mainder of the week and studied with all my might and had a sermon ser-mon in my mind that I thought I could make a big show in delivering deliver-ing to the people. On the Sabbath Sab-bath following I went at the time appointed with my head up as self-reliant as possible. Gave out a hymn and this time a young man, who was also a priest, was present. I called on him to pray, and we sang again and with, an independent spirit I rose to my feet and read my text and that was every word that I could say. I stood there but my mouth was dumb and I could not utter a word. Finally I sat down and |