David Cluff Family - Divine Preservation Through Sickness in Springfield, Illinois

When the Cluff family was forced to leave Kirtland due to persecution and decided to gather to Jackson County, Missouri, they began their journey. However, a miraculous providence of the Lord intervened. Harvey Harris Cluff wrote: 'On the family arriving at Springfield, Illinois all but two were prostrate with the chills and fever. The detention of the family at Springfield resulted in an escape of the family from being in the Missouri persecution and driving from Jackson County.' What appeared to be a calamity—a severe illness affecting nearly all family members—was actually the Lord's protection. The sickness that detained them in Springfield caused them to miss the terrible persecutions and driving out of the Saints from Jackson County, Missouri. This was divine protection working through providential circumstance.