Benjamin Johnson and company preserved during sea voyage to Lanai
Published October 4, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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Benjamin Johnson and a company of Saints navigated a small, old scow across a dangerous sea to the island of Lanai. Despite concerns from others that they would be lost, they reached their destination in safety and expressed gratitude to the Lord for protecting them through the night.
In Their Own Words
“We took an old scow of B. F. Rolles and Co., and took them all over at a load. Whites and natives all joined in saying that we would never land on Lanai; the tides and winds would take us and we would be lost, &c., but the Lord was with us, and we arrived safely with gratitude to our Father, for His protecting care had been over us through the night. — Millennial Star 17:23”
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 9 June 1855 (Vol. 17, No. 23). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1855-06-09_17_23 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high)
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