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Show landed on the other bank in safety. After traveling a few miles down the river, we found our main company com-pany in a nice bend of the river. The scene that next met our gaze was heart rending in the extreme children begging their parents to give them something to eat, but they but they had nothing to give them, and they were sad and down-cast. It was indeed a sorrowful sight to behold, and it seemed that all human feelings had left' the people. We borrowed a large camp kettle and cut up the beef we had and boiled it thoroughly and divided it out to the sisters who had children, as far as it would go . Written for Th Union. HANDCART EXPERIENCE. Continued. After those men had made everything every-thing satisfactory to themselves about their marriage with the two girls spoken of, one of them asked if there was a butcher in the camp. I told him I was a butcher, and he said he wanted a beef killed. I told them I was on hand and asked them to give my wife something to .eat while I was dressing the beef. They gave her and our child all they could eat, and they gave me a loaf of bread and quite a large piece of meat for my work. : Our train had gone and it was nearly sun down when we were ready to start, and we traveled until late at night and we again camped alone on the plains, but this time we were more fortunate, having hav-ing already had a good meal, and we had sufficient water with us. We I sincerely thanked God for again thus providing for us, and although we were in an Indian country and nearly every white man we saw were the avowed enemies of the Mormon 1 people, we were not afraid, but lay I down and took sweet rest. In the morning, after partaking of a good meal of beef and bread, we again labored in pulling our cart, and when we came to Green River, we found the train had crossed and gone ; and we were alone on its banks. We. looked at the river, and I said to my Wife we cannot cross thisrivef alone. She said "no but the Lord will help us over". At these words, j my heart seemed to leap for joy, and I said J'yes, he surely will," and we arranged our children and other things in our cart,' then knelt down on the ground, in all humbleness, and in the sincerity of our souls we told our heavenly father that we were doing all in our power to keep his commandments to gather to the land of Zion and now we had come to this river, and we could not cross it alone, End we knew that all power was in his hand, and we relied on him to assist us over. We started into the stream, and as we did so we could see the deep water just ahead of us, and the next step we expected ex-pected to step into the deep wajer, but when we took that step, the deep water was still ahed, and thus it was all the way acnjss, and to our surprise we had not wet the axletree of our cart, and wg were truly thank ful to our heaverfly father that we |