| Show providential CARE the almost miraculous inal manner in which the early pioneers obtained subsistence is regarded by them as certain proof that an ali all wise providence was over them and that a merciful god overruled for their preservation it would be unwise perhaps for it us to print in this skeptical age many of the remarkable incidents that established this firm reliance and devout faith in the provi dences of a divine ruler as these narrations might incite scorn and ridicule f from rom those who have not been taught to so interpret gods love and protecting care we commend however to all the faith and testimony of our pioneers and we ave regard their attitude toward life and toward the world the most hopeful the most encouraging cou raging 7 and optimistic that lias has yet been attained by mortal man mail we give below an interesting experience peri ence of one of our pioneers which shows how she was enabled to provide for herself and famil family A under very adverse circumstances this story is not told as being at 11 all remarkable and only one of nf the features that contributed to her material success while her husband was absent doing missionary work the narrator n is mrs M 17 L ensign whose biography appears in another column in iii 58 when my husband was called on a mission to england wo ave had three children and we ave had but twenty pounds of flour in the house I 1 presume people would think it foolish almost criminal nowadays for a husband and father to leave his family in such circumstances but bro ensign and I 1 had faith in the lord and we knew that lie ile would care for us lie ile certainly lid did care for us and we got along very nicely during my bus husbands binds absence it just seemed as if everything came my way avay and I 1 did not worry a particle let me just tell you yon one little circumstance and its consequences in the summer after my husband left an indian came to me with a nice buffalo robe which he be wanted to trade to me for old clothes and a brass kettle spon hereafter another indium traded tile me a pony PODY for the robe I 1 sold tile the pony for a yoke of small oxen and pounds of flour immigrants rants came along and traded me n 1 I yoke of large 0 oxen which were very cry poor for my oxen which were fat the poor oxen soon be calille tilt fat on oil our meadows and E sold them for in cash thus you see sec from a few old clothes clotee and a brass kettle I 1 soon realized in cash and pounds of hour flour anti and thus it was in ill many ways things carne came our way and hough we ave sometimes w were C re in i n pretty cramped circumstances we ave always mana ed to get along 11 |
