"Susannah, there is this one great cause for our deep gratitude to heaven, that this time all our elders with one voice called upon our people to bear with patience, to cry to God to cleanse their hearts from all anger and revenge." "I suppose that was well," she said, but with hesitation.
By the gentle pressure of his hand he still expressed his sympathy for her pain in listening.

"Lawyers were engaged to carry the matter through the courts.

But no sooner was it known that the thing was to be publicly tried than the Gentiles rose in arms.

For three nights they entered the houses of the Saints, beating the men, burning their barns, and in many cases unroofing the houses.

Some of our brethren went to Lexington for a peace warrant, but the judge was frightened at the mob, and, moreover, if he had offended them he would have lost much money, so he told the Saints to arm and defend themselves." Halsey had paused again.