Esther's Miraculous Guidance by the Lord to the Camp of Brigham Young

“The girl, who had roused like one electrically galvanized at his first words, gave alittle ery. ‘They are the Mormons,’ she half whispered. She said it with much the same feeling that she had exclaimed at sight of the Indians on the previous night. She was a Missourian, and had heard tales of the people represented by the name in the inscription, equaling in ferocity any she had heard of the red men. They were a people to be avoided if possible, and if met to be treated with the same craft and cruelty that one would mete to an Indian. ... ‘They cannot be Mormons—these are God-fearing people. I would trust my life with them implicitly.’ ... ‘I only know that band of true souls we have joined is God-directed, and whereever they ‘may go, our lot must be cast with them.’ — The Young Woman's Journal 13:7”