Financial Provision

Daddy Brown's Sacrifice and Providential Support

Published October 12, 2026 at 2:46 PM

1880s
A small town in Zion

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Millennial Star Research

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Daddy Brown, an Englishman who became a wine merchant and owned a beautiful home, converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Upon his conversion, his family and friends shunned him, causing him to relinquish his home and wealth to move to Zion. Despite losing a subsequent small adobe home to the dishonesty of a friend, the new owner, Mr. Fransen, allowed him and his wife, Aunt Jane, to remain there for the rest of their lives. The narrator frames this provision as the Lord remembering His stricken children.

In Their Own Words

“When new burdens came upon him, and through the dishonesty of some professed friend whom he had trusted, he lost the humble little home he had struggled hard to procure, he did not waver in his trust in God, and, as the Father never forgets those who place confidence in Him, He remembered these His stricken children, and made their trouble more easy to bear. Their home fell into the hands of a Mr. Fransen, but he, always kind and charitable, assured the poor old couple that they need never leave their home until death called them to a better one, for which blessing they were ever grateful, and acknowledged God’s reward for the sacrifice made for His sake.— Millennial Star 61:51”

Sources & References

The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 21 December 1899 (Vol. 61, No. 51). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1899-12-21_61_51 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high)

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