Sister Pratt's Dream of a Cow Devouring the Wheat Is Fulfilled the Next Day in the Manchester Meeting (1842)
Published October 4, 2026 at 3:47 AM
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While the presiding elders were absent from the meeting in Manchester, Sister Pratt recounted a dream in which she stood in a beautiful, extensive field of wheat about two feet high. On one side, she beheld a cow eating the wheat, having devoured a space equal to the size of the room where they were meeting (the room adjoining the shop in Oxford Street). The next day, individuals disturbed the sacrament meeting in that very room, and Sister Pratt sat close to where the disturbance occurred.
In Their Own Words
“I was in company with Sister Pratt a few days ago, and she informed me that she dreamt that she was in a very beautiful and extensive field of wheat which appeared to be about two feet high, and in one part of the field, at one side of it, she beheld a cow eating it up, and that the beast appeared to have devoured a space equal to the size of the room where we were sitting (The room adjoining the shop in Oxford Street). Yesterday afternoon one of the individuals represented by the three hogs before mentioned, attempted to interrupt the sacrament meeting, and on being told that we would not allow him to disturb our meeting he persisted in doing so, and several others appeared to be aiding and abetting him in his conduct, wherefore the brethren put them out of the room; but not without considerable resistance being offered by them. It appeared afterwards that one if not more of these were the individuals turned out on the occasion before referred to. I should remark that sister Pratt, sat close by the place where the disturbance occurred. — Times and Seasons 3:14”
Sources & References
Times and Seasons (Commerce, later Nauvoo, Illinois, November 1839–February 1846), 15 May 1842 (Vol. 3, No. 14). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1842-05-15_3_14 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high)
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