George Q. Cannon's Divine Manifestation of Quails in the Wilderness

While George Q. Cannon was traveling as a missionary through a wilderness area (likely in California or on the way to Hawaii), he was divinely provided with quails for sustenance. Despite being told to kill and eat them, his spirit was moved by a manifestation of God's power, realizing the event mirrored the miraculous feeding of the children of Israel. He felt compelled not to kill the innocent birds and ultimately found sufficient birds for the sick to eat.

Fuller account of this event (in the witness’s own words):

About last March, while on his way to this place, I stopped over with a native, who proved to be a member of the Rev. Mr. Green’s church; while there, it came on to rain, when Mr. Green came along, and seeing brother Cannon, he rode up, and ordered the native to turn him out of doors. Brother Cannon asked him if that was Christian-like conduct, to which he made no reply. I have been led to think of that day. This little circumstance brings to my mind the travels of the children of Israel in the wilderness, and the manifestation of God’s power in their behalf. When I was travelling through the wilderness, and had no means to obtain food, I felt to thank my heavenly Father for the manifestation of His care over me. I was led to believe that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, bestowed a manifestation that His all-seeing eye was upon me, as much as it was on the children of Israel, as they were travelling through the wilderness from the land of Egypt. I remember one day, one of these hands held two dead birds, and the other two; I was told to kill and eat them, but handling with my naked hands the manifestation that God was the same then, as he was in the days of Moses, my eyes shed tears of gladness; I could not kill the innocent birds as they fluttered in my grasp. There were sufficient killed, so that all the sick ate of them for their dinner, and began to mend.