Financial Provision

John Taylor's Miraculous Financial Provision on the Isle of Man

Published October 13, 2026 at 6:11 AM

1840s · 1840
Isle of Man

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Millennial Star Research

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While serving as a missionary on the Isle of Man, Elder John Taylor lacked the funds to pay a printer for tracts he had ordered. The printer refused to release the tracts without payment. Elder Taylor prayed for help; immediately after rising, a stranger handed him an envelope containing an amount of money with a note saying, 'The laborer is worthy of his hire.' Shortly after, a poor fisher-woman gifted him a small sum, which, when combined with the money in the envelope, equaled the exact amount needed to pay the printer.

In Their Own Words

“Elder Taylor was a man of great faith, and in his missionary labors he usually traveled without purse or scrip. As an instance of how the Lord provided for him, he tells of an incident on the Isle of Man. He had not the money to pay for some tracts which he had ordered to be printed, and the printer would not let him have them until every penny was paid. Elder Taylor went to the Lord and told Him of his difficulty. Hardly had he arisen from his knees before a stranger came to the door, handed him an envelope, and then left. The envelope contained some money; and a note which said: “The laborer is worthy of his hire.” In a few minutes a poor fisher-woman appeared and insisted that he should accept a small gift from her. Reluctantly he did so, and when the sum was added to what was in the envelope, it was found to be the exact amount needed to pay for the tracts. — Millennial Star 67:40”

Sources & References

The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 5 October 1905 (Vol. 67, No. 40). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1905-10-05_67_40 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high)

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