_Joel Rae Is Treated for Pride of Soul_ Brigham sent for him the next day and did him the honour to entrust to him an important mission.

He was to go back to the Missouri River and bring on one of the hand-cart parties that were to leave there that summer.

The three years of famine had left the Saints in the valley poor, so that the immigration fund was depleted.

The oncoming Saints, therefore, who were not able to pay their own way, were this summer, instead of riding in ox-carts, to walk across the plains and mountains, and push their belongings before them in hand-carts.

It had become Brigham's pet scheme, and the Lord had revealed to him that it would work out auspiciously.