On the Power of God

1895

This was an interesting trip for me; I could talk over with my folks to prepare for Canada.

Next time I visited Spring City, the girl sent word to me that she was keeping the Word of Wisdom and expected to get the promise all right. I visited her and administered to her and promised her, in the name of the Lord, to leave the crutches alone and walk without them. She had been compelled to use them for many years. Now the Lord healed her. She left the crutches alone and did not take them up any more. As the one leg was longer than the other she had to use a walking cane after that. She could even dance on the floor.

Before I left West Jordan, I visited a good friend form the Old Country. It got late before I got ready to go home. A storm came on, and it began to be dark. I wet into a farmhouse and inquired about the road. We were told to follow this fence straight out. We went a little way, all at once the Spirit told me to stop quick and go to the right through the gate. I at once said woe! The wife said, “What is the matter, we were told to go straight out, I go and will soon find out.” There was the gate. And in front of the team was a great deep gravel pit. We were saved from accident.

Now came the time to receive our third son, born on the twentieth of March. We named him Isaac Hans.

Kathrine, my wife, got sick all at once. So fearfully she told me to do something for the pain, it is more than she can stand. I administered to her, and asked her how she felt now. She was not over it yet and I performed the same thing over again and asked her again how she felt. The pain had left one place and went to another place. I administered at once the third time and I asked again how she felt, this time she said that she was now healed and can come up at once and work at anything.

The Spirit told me to lay my hands on all the children one by one to stop the evil spirit to have any more power over the children. I started with the youngest and went to them all. When I came to the oldest, seven year old girl, Katie refused to let my hand come on her head. I held her by one hand while I put the other hand on her head and rebuked the evil spirit away from all the children and away from the house.

I rented a house in Murray for the winter, as I intended to work on the smelter through the winter and go to Canada in the spring.

I moved my hay and everything from West Jordan, and began to work again on the smelter preparing for the Canada journey next year.

I must tell a little more of my experiences from West Jordan. Another time I was trying to cast out an evil spirit. I was fasting and praying for three days and nights. The second day after we had family prayers. I went out side in a secret place to pray, and when I got there I met an evil power. I felt like I met the army of Satan. I said to myself that Satan is here, I am going to pray, and as soon as I started to pray an evil power took hold of me and lifted me from the ground and threw me down like an electric current, and went through me, and held me, so I could not move a finger, nor speak or breathe. I was in the claws of Satan. The miserable feeling is unspeakable. It surpasses all understanding to be under the power of the devil. I held out and at last I was left alone. I finished my prayer and finished my three days of fasting and after that I was visited by the Holy power. Yes, I was filled with the power and filled with the gift of the Holy Ghost. And all things were made known to me, what I wanted to know, that God lives and His Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost, and that Joseph Smith was a true prophet of the true living God, and always will be.

These are some of the most excellent experiences, both of good and evil.

About the time of the dedication of the Salt Lake Temple, all my people came down from Spring City to be at the celebration. I was much pleased to meet them all and see their faithfulness in the Church. The Spirit told me to tell my father that his family will grow up and be leaders among the people, and the Lord will raise up a Patriarch out of his family. The Patriarch has not come yet.

I have seen that fulfilled, five High Priests, two Bishops, one High Councilor. They have all been good workers in the Church, yes, and good Temple workers too, and good citizens and leaders in the community.

Before we were ready to move to Canada, Kathrine wanted to learn to be a midwife. I would have to pay a hundred dollars to let her take the course in Salt Lake City. I gave her the hundred dollars and she got started in her study and graduated and got her diploma.

All at once she got in some kind of a disagreement with a neighbor woman and she wanted to move away from here to another house, and that was much against my will. Here we had everything in good running order. I tried my best to convince her that I was not right to move now, it would bring extra expense and more trouble than we had any idea of. I could not pacify her without renting another house and move. I at last gave in and moved to my great sorrow. On that account, I got my left shoulder broken, off one of my horses, taking it to water. The accident I got by moving has crippled me the rest of my life.

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