And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

1834 - Feeling they were camped in a dangerous position, the Prophet counseled Zion’s Camp to move quickly, which they did, traveling about nine miles before stopping for breakfast.  They had breakfast near a farm house, whose owner provided plenty of milk to go with their meal.  The farmer stated that it was a “shame that every man can’t come up and enjoy his religion, and everything else without being molested.”  The Camp continued forward to meet up with the Clay county brethren, but had equipment problems with their wagons.  They ended up camping on an elevated piece of land between Little Fishing and Big Fishing rivers.  While preparing the camp, five men “armed with guns rode into our camp, and told us we should ‘see hell before morning’.”  They told the Camp that several hundred men were coming to destroy them.  As the men were leaving the camp, a storm began.  While the members of Zion’s Camp had some wind and heavy rain, the storm around them was so strong it kept the mob from attacking.  Hail destroyed crops and broke off tree limbs.  The incessant lightening lit up the Camp like day and the rain feel in torrents causing the Big Fishing river, only ankle deep when they arrived, to rise forty feet deep and the Little Fishing river thirty feet.  Many of the men from Zion’s Camp found shelter in an old meetinghouse while the mob was literally kept from their plans by the destructive storm.  Many “declared that if that was the way God fought for the Mormons, they might as well go about their business” (History of the Church, 2:102-105).

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