The LDS Elder's Miraculous Deliverance from a Birkenhead Mob

“The crowd stayed around the building until near midnight waiting for us to come out, and then dispersed, when we went to our lodge. The next night we held our meeting as usual. The crowd was larger than ever. They had heard that we were going to hold a meeting and they were there to prevent it. We had a very good meeting, however, and the Spirit of the Lord was with us. After the meeting, I had no sooner got back in the meeting room with the elders, than I was prompted to tell the brethren with me that we would leave. I said, 'Brethren, we will go now.' They looked at me in surprise, for they knew the mob was outside. I said, 'President Clawson has promised us that we shall come and go in peace, and I know that we shall.' We took our hats, opened the door, pushed aside a huge English 'bobby' standing in front of the door, passed across the few feet intervening between the door and the mob. I pushed our way into the crowd. The crowd was still fighting with the police and throwing anything at hand at them and the building. The air was thick with missiles. Yet into the crowd we went and walked for practically a block through them. We were so close to them that we could have touched them, and they were shouting and cursing and looking for us. Yet not an eye saw us leave the building and not an eye saw us pass through the crowds. We passed through them as if the street were clear, took our train to Liverpool, and arrived safely.”

— Unnamed Elder, The Young Woman's Journal, vol. 31 no. 10 (October 1920)