But you will be there for the glory of it, and who more deserves it ?" "I pray to be made worthy of the exaltation, Father." "You are, laddie.

The word and the light came to me when I preached another faith--for the spirit of Thomas Campbell had aforetime moved me--but you, laddie, you have been bred in the word and the truth.

The Lord, as a mark of his favour, has kept you from the contamination of doubters, infidels, heretics, and apostates.

You have been educated under the care of the priesthood, close here in Nauvoo the Beautiful, and who could more deserve the fulness of thrones, dominions, and of power--who of all those whose number the after-time shall unfold ?" He turned appealingly to the mother, whose fevered eyes rested fondly upon her boy as she nodded confirmation of the words.
"Did he not march all the way from Kirtland to Missouri with us in '34--the youngest soldier in the whole army of Zion?
How old, laddie ?--twelve, was it ?--so he marched a hundred miles for every one of his little years--and so valiant--none more so--begging us to hasten and give battle so he could fight upon the Lord's side.

Twelve hundred miles he walked to put back in their homes the persecuted Saints of Jackson County.