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Show PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. (Continued) Slap Jack Bar, Middle Fork of the American ltiver, September 23, 1850. I have not written in my journal for several months, but it sufliceth me to say that we have had the painful duty of burying three of our brethren since coming into the mines. Brother Flake was thrown from his mule last May and killed! I sat up part of the night by his dead body, when the watch relieved me I went to bed and dreamed that he came to m& l and told me that when he fell his! head struck the ground doubling him forward, at the same time putting put-ting his hand on his breast and said ; "what killed me is in here." September 24 Brother Rich ! came to our camp and said ho 1 wanted to send some of us on a ! mission to the Sandwich Islands, i and one to Oregon. He then laid his hands on the following Elders and set them apart for the above Jiissions, namely; Thomas White, Thomas Morris, John Dixon, Hen- ! ry If. Bigler George Q. Cannon, W illiam Farrer, James Keelei and James Howjuns, for the Islands, and Boyd Steward for Oregon. He stated that elders Clark and Blackwell would go with us to the Islands and that Hyrum Clark would preside over the mission, etc. This turn of things by us was not looked for, and for one, I felt much disappointed in my calculations about going home soon, but asthe Lord's ways are different dif-ferent from man's, air felt it was for our best good. Here I will write a dream that elder Canuon had about this time. I will give it in his own words, as near as memory serves me. He ; told it one morning while at break- j fast. He said "I dreamed last night that I was in a room where i President Young and the Twelve were, and they wanted to ordain me to some office. What that office of-fice was is gone from me but I felt X j could not fill an office of that j magnitude. President young said,' yes, you are the very man; and ; they ordained me, but to what of-fice of-fice I do not know, and I wept. 1 After this I found myself on one of J the fleetest aminals inaginable and ' had a message to carry and was! traveling over a very rough road, i There wore hedges and ditches, high fences, rocks, and lpgs in my way, and whenever I came up. to them under full headway the hair on my head .seemed to raise and stand erect, but t very time I came up to them my horse jumped over them and landed me safely on the other side." Of late years I have often thought of this dream. To myj mind it was a true one, and I leave your readers, Mr editor, to put their own construction or give their own interpretation of the same. II. W. B. To be continued. |