B. F. Cummings' deliverance from an anti-Mormon mob in St. David
Published October 5, 2026 at 2:55 AM
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While holding a meeting in the village of St. David, Illinois, a group of apostates planned to mob B. F. Cummings as soon as the meeting ended. Sensing this, Cummings left the house before the crowd, was provided a horse by a relative living four miles away, and escaped to the relative's residence.
Fuller account of this event (the complete account as preserved in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 38, No. 6, 7 February 1876):
At St. David, Illinois, a mob of apostates and others had gathered to mob Elder B. F. Cummings, at the close of his meeting, but he, being warned, left the house before the meeting was out, and went to a relative's, four miles distant, and obtained a horse and escaped.
In Their Own Words
“I have as yet met no unkind opposition, except on one occasion, about two weeks since, when I held a meeting at a village called St. David, where there were some apostates, who formed a plan to mob me as soon as the meeting, which was to be held in the evening, was over, but I managed to get out of the house before the crowd did, mounted a horse provided for me by a relative living in the country four miles distant, and rode to his residence, thus giving the would-be mobocrats the slip. — Millennial Star 38:6”
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 7 February 1876 (Vol. 38, No. 6). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1876-02-07_38_6 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high) Complete account: The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 38, No. 6, 7 February 1876 https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1876-02-07_38_6
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