J. L. McMurrin's Prompting and Divine Guidance to Ireland

“On Sunday, Nov. 24th, after meeting in the hall in High-street, Edinburgh, my companion and I started to spend the week in the country, traveling from place to place, holding out-door meetings. According to appointment we arrived at Conrigg, in which we concluded to hold forth. We reached this place in good time, and held our meeting, after which I was suddenly impressed to return to Edinburgh. It seemed a strange order to my companion in view of the plan we had laid out, and I felt peculiar about it myself; still we at once retraced our steps to that city, and on our arrival at the house in which we lodged I saw a letter on the mantel-piece addressed to me, and without knowing who it was written by, I said to my companion, “This is a letter calling me to Ireland.” He merely laughed at my statement; so I read to him the following: “Elder J. L. McMurrin,—Dear Brother,—You are hereby released from laboring in Scotland, and appointed to labor in Ireland. You proceed thither as soon as you can conveniently do so; and may God bless you in your new field.” I felt that the Lord had directed me, and that it was necessary for me to be in Edinburgh to receive that letter, and to be prepared for the change. I went to Ireland, and while there I was enabled to find the genealogy of my family, which I had been unable to do while in Scotland, although I had made every effort to do so.”

— J. L. McMurrin, The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 51, No. 11