William Clayton - Miraculous Deliverance When Delayed by Illness at Buffalo

When William Clayton's company of Saints reached Buffalo, they faced a crisis. Clayton wrote: 'This was truly an affecting scene... Many of the Company was almost destitute of money and some destitute of both meat and money and could get no farther. There was not sufficient means to be had in the Company to take the whole and consequently some must remain at Buffalo.' However, Clayton testified of a miraculous intervention: 'At this time Elder Turley was almost heartbroken on account of having to leave some of the Company and as it was in former times, when he could see no way open the Lord made His kindness manifest and sent deliverance, whilst he was enunciating upon our situation, brother Kellog the presiding elder at Kirtland passed by him. Brother Turley knew him and stopped him... Brother Kellog immediately offered to take either the whole or part of the Company to Kirtland.' This was the Lord's divine providence providing a way forward when all seemed hopeless.