Edward L. Linsley's Miraculous Provision and Successful Procurement of a Meeting Place in Brisbane

“I had two meetings under a verandah, but then the police interfered. They said I stopped the thoroughfare. It seemed at the time as though Satan through these ministers would put a stop to the preaching of the Gospel in Brisbane, but God ordained it otherwise. I found two empty houses that had not been occupied for years, but what was more difficult to find was their owner; but at last I succeeded, and he being glad for anybody to take care of them, told me I could have them and welcome. Knowing that I should not keep them for a week if I had not a written agreement with him, as I had been served two or three times before in the same manner, I succeeded in getting a six months lease, on my doing certain repairs. This being settled, I went to work and made the ground floor of the two houses into one large room, capable of holding about 400 people. I had seats made out of the partition boards for about 70, and the next Sunday I opened the Latter-day Saints’ meeting room, being determined to stop there until I was released by the authority that sent me, though I often had to go out and gather up sweet potatoes from the fields, on which I subsisted for many days.”

— Edward L. Linsley, The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 33, No. 50