our father's house, "hid up" from his enemies; but during the time, with the legal assistance of the justice of the peace (an honorable Gentile), he arranged his business matters preparatory to leaving for the west. Before he left, he was joined by six others, whose lives were threatened by apostates.
Before closing this subject, I think a further notice is due the unantagonistic apostate, Luke Johnson. I happened to meet him the day after the scene in the court room—he enquired after his released prisoner, and after hearing that he reached his destination all right, he, in a jocose manner, related the foregoing circumstances, and closed with, "Father Smith will bless me for it, all the days of his life." To which, when I repeated it to Father Smith on my return home, he replied in the affirmative; and Luke Johnson is the only one of those five Apostles that returned to the Church. He was re-baptized, and lived a faithful member—was much respected, and died an honorable death in the midst of his friends, in Salt Lake City.
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Leave Kirtland.—Grand Entertainment.—A noble Woman.—Lorenzo drives
one Team.—He is very Sick.—Arrive in Far West, Missouri.—Elder
Rigdon's Kindness.—Dr. Avord's Meanness.—His Nurse, Nightwatcher
and Doctor.—An Incident.—Arrive in Adam-ondi-Ahman.—Lorenzo
takes his Gun and goes out to Hunt.—A new Train of Reflections
Hunting for Sport.—The old Settlers.—Their Antagonism.—Preparation
for Defense.—False Alarm explained.
TOWARDS the last of April, 1838, our father left Kirtland with twenty-one souls in company, to wit: his own family, consisting of his wife, two daughters, three sons, and two grand-daughters, children of our eldest sister who was at this time a widow; Brother Huntington and
