David W. Patten's supernatural protection from a mob at Father Fry's

While preaching at the home of Father Fry in Benton County, David W. Patten was confronted by an angry mob led by a Mr. Rose who brandished weapons and threatened him. Patten bared his breast to the mob and told them to shoot, at which point the mob was filled with fear and fled the premises.

Fuller account of this event (as retold in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 59, No. 2 (14 January 1897)):

While preaching at the house of Father Fry, in Benton County, Tennessee, David was interrupted by a Mr. Rose who asked him to raise the dead. David offered to the man a stinging rebuke for his wickedness, when Mr. Rose in anger left the house. After meeting, however, he returned, bringing with him a crowd of armed men, all determined to take the life of the Apostle. He was greeted with the brandishing of weapons and dire threats of vengeance; but with the utmost coolness he bared his breast to the mob, and told them to shoot. The same fear seemed to fall upon them that possessed the mobocrat in Missouri, for they fled from the premises for their lives.

After the meeting concluded and the mob had fled, David W. Patten and his companion Wilford Woodruff went to a stream of pure water to cleanse their hands and feet, bearing testimony against the wicked men who had reviled them, as recorded in the journal of Wilford Woodruff.