A part of the greater St. George area, with the 1877 St. George Utah Temple, brilliantly white, at roughly the center of the photograph\u00a0 (Wikimedia Commons public domain image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
In 1987, Leon R. Hartshorn published a compilation entitled Remarkable Stories from the Lives of Latter-day Saint Women<\/em>.\u00a0 Earlier today, I came across two apparent excerpts from it that I\u2019ll share here.\u00a0 Both of them focus on Lydia Goldthwaite, who was born in Sutton, Massachusetts, on 9 June 1812 and who eventually married my collateral relative Newell Knight in Kirtland, Ohio, on 23 November 1835.\u00a0 He himself had been born on 13 September 1800 in Marlboro, Vermont, and \u2014 one of the leaders of a small group of Latter-day Saint refugees \u2014 he would die of exposure on 11 January 1847 at Camp Ponca, Iowa, months before any of the exiled Saints had crossed the Rocky Mountains to the Great Basin West.\u00a0 His death left Lydia with seven young children to care for.\u00a0 She lived until 3 April 1884, passing away in St. George, Utah:<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
The day after Lydia\u2019s baptism the Nickerson family and others were gathered around the fireplace in the parlor listening to the Prophet\u2019s words when . . .\u00a0 \u201cI would be so glad if someone who has been baptized could receive the gift of tongues as the ancient Saints did and speak to us,\u201d said Moses Nickerson. \u201cIf one of you will rise up and open your mouth it shall be filled, and you shall speak in tongues,\u201d replied the Prophet. Everyone then turned as by a common instinct to Lydia and said with one voice, \u201cSister Lydia, rise up.\u201d And then the great glory of God was manifested to this weak but trusting girl. She was enveloped as with a flame, and unable longer to retain her seat, she rose and her mouth was filled with the praises of God and his glory. The spirit of tongues was upon her, and she was clothed in a shining light, so bright that all present saw it with great distinctness above the light of the fire and the candles.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
The second incident obviously occurs many years thereafter.\u00a0 I\u2019m still thinking of the sudden and unexpected passing of Kent Budge, which (I\u2019m told) leaves his wife with some exceptional challenges pertaining to their children.\u00a0 So I take some comfort in this account:<\/p>\n
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Several days after Newel had died Lydia returned from a meeting and \u201csat down in her home full of sad thoughts. How could she, who had never taken any care except that which falls to every woman\u2019s share, prepare herself and family to return to Winter Quarters and from thence take journey a thousand miles into the Rocky Mountains? The burden weighed her very spirit down until she cried out in her pain, \u201cOh Newel, why hast thou left me!\u201d As she spoke, he stood by her side, with a lovely smile on his face, and said; \u201cBe calm, let no sorrow overcome you. It was necessary that I should go. I was needed behind the veil. . . . You cannot fully comprehend it now; but the time will come when you shall know why I left you and our little ones. therefore, dry up your tears. Be patient, I will go before you and protect you in your journeyings. And you and your little ones shall never perish for lack of food.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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