"One night while President Woodruff, his wife, and their four children were on a journey, they stopped to sleep at a friend's house. Three of the children slept in the house while President Woodruff, his wife, and one child slept outside in the carriage.
President Woodruff said, "I had been in bed but a short time when a voice sait to me, 'Get up and move your carriage.' It was not thunder, lightning or an earthquake, but the still, small voice of the Spirit of God--the Holy Ghost . . . I got up and moved my carriage . . . and set it by the side of the house. As I was returning to bed the same Spirit said to me, 'Go and move your mules away from that oak tree.' . . . I moved them to a young hickory grove and tied them up. I then went to bed. In thirty minutes a whirlwind caught the tree to which my mules had been fastened, broke it off near the ground, and carried it one hundred yards, sweeping away two fences in its course, and laid it . . . where my carriage [had] stood. . . . By obeying the revelation of the Spirit of God to me I save my life and the lives of my wife and child, as well as my animals"
("Leaves from My Journal," Millennial Star, 12 Dec. 1881, pp. 790-791).
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