Miracle Healing and Guided Journey Across Swollen River

In the spring of 1839, as Lorenzo Brown's family group journeyed westward toward the gathering place of the Saints, they traveled with prayer meetings and were blessed with spiritual gifts. While in Ohio, one Sunday there was a violent storm of rain. The next morning they had gone only a little way when they came to a stream that had been swollen high by the rain. While the group was consulting about whether to cross, one of their number spoke in tongues. When the message was interpreted, it said that if they attempted to cross some of them would drown. This interpretation proved true afterward. They stayed at that location all day. The brethren killed game while the sisters cooked, and they shared an excellent meal together on a pile of rails that served as a table. The next day, the stream had receded enough to allow safe passage. This miraculous guidance through speaking in tongues saved them from a perilous crossing.