Much has been taken from me, but much will be given unto me." And under this ran a minor strain born of the rage that still burned within him: "But, oh, the day of wrath that shall dawn on yonder Gentiles!" So did he chasten himself through the night; and when the morning came he took his place in the train, strangely exalted by this new sense of the singular favour that was to be conferred upon him.
For seven weeks the little caravan crept over the prairies of Iowa, and day after day his conviction strengthened that he had been chosen for large works.

In this fervour he cheered the sick and the weak of the party by picturing for them a great day to come when the Lord should exalt the valleys of humility and abase the mountains of Gentile pride; when the Saints should have their reward, and retribution should descend upon the wicked nation they were leaving behind.

Scourges, afflictions, and depredations by fire, famine, and the tyrant's hand he besought them to regard as marks of Heaven's especial favour.
The company came to look upon him as its cloud by day and its pillar of fire by night.

Old women--mothers in Israel--lavished attentions upon him as a motherless boy; young women smiled at him with soft pity, and were meek and hushed when he spoke.

And the men believed that the things he told them concerning their great day to come were true revelations from God.