Saints in Staffordshire Conference sustained by the Lord

During the year 1855, some of the Saints in the Staffordshire Conference who were initially in extreme poverty were able to provide for their needs, contribute to church funds, and save for emigration, which they attributed to hearkening to the counsel of church servants, while those who disobeyed counsel remained in poverty and affliction.

Fuller account of this event (as retold in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 18, No. 8, February 23, 1856, p. 123):

During the year some of the Saints, who at its commencement were so poor as to be unable to procure the necessaries of life, have proved that there is a God in Israel, inasmuch as they have been able to provide things decently, to subscribe liberally to the various funds, and also to lay up the means to emigrate this season. This prosperity they ascribe to hearkening to the counsel of the servants of God. On the other hand, there are some who were at that time in prosperous circumstances, whose course has been that of continually and systematically disregarding counsel; these are now in the bonds of poverty and affliction, of various kinds, and they unwillingly acknowledge that these things are the consequences of disobedience.