A Journal of the Life and Gospel Labors of That Devoted Servant and Minister of Christ, Joseph Hoag

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1860 Original Publisher: D. Heston Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: After sitting by the way-side a long time, it was opened in my mind as plainly as though printed in a book, that it should not come to pass speedily. "They will receive thy message coolly, and thou wilt be censured for it, but when it cometh to pass they shall remember thy warning, and have to acknowledge that the Lord was thy director, and that His word was truth in thy mouth, for it shall surely come to pass. If thou disobey me, I, the Lord, will bring trouble upon thee that shall be much worse to bear." After this manifestation, I concluded to go and see my father, and then return, as I thought there would be time enough for it; still it appeared clear to me that I ought not to go to him, but return back. This I concluded my father would think strange, since there was time enough both to go and return. Then it came into my mind to write to my father, being persuaded at the same time, that this would do better than to go to him. Notwithstanding these intimations I went to him. This proved an entire preventative of my getting to Quarterly Meeting, which threw my mind into great confusion, so that I was in much distress, nearly all the time I was in that part of the country. I never after had an opportunity to relieve my mind ; another stepped in and took the crown. They were warned -- and death came. This step of mine opened the door for the heaviest suffering I have ever experienced from without. CHAPTER. VI. I was taken sick with vomiting which continued without much intermission, until I thought I wasdying. My thoughts were brought to reflect how I was going. It look...