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A String of Pearls Second Book of the Faith-Promoting Series
A STRING OF PEARLS,
SECOND BOOK OF THE FAITH-PROMOTING SERIES.
Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints.
SECOND EDITION.
JUVENILE INSTRUCTOR OFFICE,
Salt Lake City,
1882.
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
The first book of this, the "FAITH-PROMOTING SERIES"—My First Mission—which was published some months since, has been so well received by the public that we are encouraged to continue the publication of works of a similar character.
We herewith give "A STRING OF PEARLS" to our readers, feeling assured that they will find the contents of this little work of inestimable value.
Probably no people in the world possess so rich and varied an experience as do the Latter-day Saints, and especially the Elders who have labored in the ministry in various lands. Contributions from them, giving a relation of their personal experience, are most profitable to young people to peruse.
The present age is one of doubt and unbelief. Faith in God, in His willingness to hear and answer prayer, and in the gifts of the gospel, has almost vanished from the earth. As a people we have this to contend with. Our children, not having had experience themselves, have to be carefully watched, lest they, too, should partake of the leaven of unbelief. We feel that it is a duty that we owe to them to place within their reach the evidences that their fathers and their mothers have received of the existence of God, of His willingness to hear and answer prayer, and to bestow His gifts upon those who seek for them in the right way.
God has wrought as marvelously in behalf of the Latter-day Saints as He did in former days in behalf of His people.
We hope that this little volume will prove of great value to those who read it, by inspiring them with faith, and furnishing them a foundation upon which to build and obtain knowledge from the Lord.
We also indulge in the hope that its publication may stir up others—of whom there are so many hundreds, and perhaps thousands, in our Church who have had valuable experience—to take the time and trouble necessary to commit incidents of this character to paper, that they may not die with themselves, but that they may live to speak hope and consolation unto, and to inspire confidence in, those who shall come after them.
With an earnest hope, therefore, that the contents of this little volume may prove a help to those who may read it, by inspiring them with faith in the Almighty and His promises, we modestly publish it, and give it the expressive title which it bears. G. Q. C.
October, 1880.
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
In publishing this, the second edition of the STRING OF PEARLS, it is only necessary to add that the first edition of 5,000 copies is exhausted, and we are induced by the continued demand for the book to re-issue it. It is very gratifying to notice the taste which has been developed during the past few years, among the youth of our community, for such reading matter as the FAITH-PROMOTING SERIES contains. We hope to see a continued growth in this direction, and that our brethren and sisters of experience will be prompted by it to write for publication such sketches from their lives as will point a moral and convey a lesson to the minds of future generations who may peruse the same.
We see no reason why the six volumes of the FAITH-PROMOTING SERIES already published, as well as those which may follow, should not be regarded in the future as standard works of the Church, and used for home reading or Sunday school class books when their authors and those of whose history they treat shall have passed to another sphere of action.
June, 1882. THE PUBLISHER.
CONTENTS.
AMONG THE PONCAS.
Start for the Mountains—Experience as a Cobbler—Indian Mission Abandoned—Caching Property—Ponca Indians—A Prophecy and its Fulfillment.
Going with the Poncas—Buffalo Meat—Camped for the Winter—Council with the Indians—A War Dance—Selected to go with the Poncas on a Winter's Hunt.
Grand "Peace" Smoke—Table Etiquette—No Dish Washing—White Friends Discouraged.
Last two Brethren leave me—Home-sick—Tonsorial Experience—"Whadee-Shipper," a New Name for me—Kindness of the Indians.
A Buffalo Hunt—A Thrilling Sight—Conversation with the Indians—Scurvy—Answer to Prayer.
Strength in Time of Need—Afflicted like Job, with Boils—Scraping with a Potsherd Pleasant—My Prayer Room—Dressing Buffalo Robes—Dining on Cottonwood Bark—Indian Self-Denial.
Police Regulations—A Moral People—Marriage Customs—Invitation to a Feast—Skunk Meat at Midnight—Indians Cheated by White Traders.
Symptoms of Death—No Hopes of Living—Ponca Manner of Burying the Dead—Dread of Having my Body Mangled by the Wolves—Decide to Bargain with the Indians to Cut up my Body and Take it to my Friends—Happy Assurance that I should Live, etc.
Visit from the Brules—Feast on Dog Meat—Seat of Honor on the Pillow—Return Journey—Opening Caches—Shooting Fish—Curious Manner of Cooking Fish.
Chosen to go as an Envoy to the Camp of the Saints—A Solitary Journey—Surrounded by Thousands of Wolves—Providential Deliverance—Happy Sight, a Yoke of Oxen—Tears of Joy—Meet two of my Friends—Safe Return to the Camp of the Saints.
ANECDOTES OF ELDER GRANT.
Reputation as a Ready Speaker—Putting him to the Test—Sermon from a Blank Text—Enthusiasm at the Close of it—A Collection Proposed—The Minister Objects to