Show A family meeting We eting at about 4 p in april ath the family children and grandchildren grandc hidren I 1 of 0 the aged patriarch PG sessions Sessio nc began gathering and about zi 5 the large rcck in III the house known as his mothers ratty patty SEs sessions Se eaione sione house was well filled and father sessions began Us lis family meeting S ster elizabeth wife lie of carlos sessions lead the singing the dmn ibe spirit of god like a fire to la baru bur iLg etc was waa sung in spirit aud and lue aning prayer was offered offer ed by byron seal gobis father S Ss belond baid it if hd 13 had strength lie be wanted to tall talk to his family as an there were more ot of his children present than lie ho ever expected to see aee together at ono one time and he did not think that lie ho over ever would KO evo so BO many again ile he would liko like them to understand him II if he could say bay what he wanted to ue talked about tile the time when ho ha first landed la it this country with two wives aud and two NO children alth all he had bad lit in a wagon lie he contrasted that with 1118 condition today ue impressed upon their minds the necessity of having faith la in goj goi and to make it more gave gale some ot of his hia experience lu in traveling once while crossing the hia said its ha the ship sprang a leak and the pasa eugere became excited and alamed alai meil running around and giving vent to their feel logs some by crying others by ray iray ing and one woman clime came to him in it her night clothes him what was to te be done he had not yet gotten out of bed she bile said raid they would all go to the bottom it at the sea ile he told her to go co back to bed and kc keep ep quiet quie t as they were all right nud and would land safely that he bo was upon a mission of 0 charity aud ami had bad faith that ho would be preserved to accomplish his work another time the indians made a raid upon them end and forty bullets were sent by them so close that he be thought he could feel eel them PaI passing through his hair but through gli the providence of the almighty he was waa not hurt ne ile related many perilous Qua circumstances that he had passed through unhurt gave good instruction and especially mentioned the necessity ot of calling calli Dj upon god in secret prayer as that Is the succor the missionary relies upon he asserted that lie ho had done many things which would have been as well left undone but congratulated himself for doing as well as aa lie he had it if ho he had hurt the feelings feell nes of any one he asked their forgiveness after father sessions had concluded hta his remarks seventeen members of 0 his family spoke likewise asking forgiveness where they had harmed any one and acknowledged that no one had had better teachings than those who bear the name of ses sessions lons after this fatter sessions alec s d his family there prevailed a spirit of oneness and a feeling of forgiveness it was a time of rejoicing and an assemblage which not all vill vall see again fifty nine of lis bis sons and daughters sons in law and daughters ln in law were present it if father sessions lives till june 1833 1893 he will have hava reached the ripe old dge age of seven seventy ty 11 ight fight years lie ile has hag had fifty five ell children ildron of 0 which forty two are alive and sc scattered uttered scott ered from wood riser idaho la in the north to old mexico co in the south he has about eighty grandchildren living uty my ha bis us name me never be ba forgotten in a israel MEMBER or OF THE FAMILY |