Unidentified Member’s Divinely Directed Warning and Employment Guidance
Published October 12, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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Millennial Star Research
An unnamed member of the Church describes two instances of spiritual guidance. In the first instance, the member and a fellow employee, both Latter-day Saints, received identical dreams warning that their firm would soon fail; the member left and moved to Utah, and four months later, the firm failed, leaving 70 employees jobless. In the second instance, after the member moved to Utah, they accepted a position at $80 per month, but after five hours, felt a strong spiritual prompting to leave. Despite the manager raising the offer to $120, the member resigned. Three months later, that firm also failed. Later, while walking home and praying for work, the member received a specific prompting to visit Brother P——, who unexpectedly provided employment.
In Their Own Words
“After I was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Elders laid their hands upon my head, and confirmed me a member of the Church, and conferred upon me the gift of the Holy Ghost. I was told that if I would live a righteous life, and keep the commandments of the Lord, that the Holy Spirit would be my constant companion, and would guide me into all truth, and show me things to come. It was not long after my baptism when I had ample proof that the Lord had fulfilled His promise, and had given me His Holy Spirit. At this time I was employed by a firm of some fifty years standing, and which was doing a very profitable business. I had a good situation, and was earning a good salary. One morning the Lord gave me a dream, in which He told me that the firm in which I was employed was going to fail in a short time, and that it was my duty to leave and go to Utah. The Spirit told me that one of the young men employed by the same firm, also a Latter-day Saint, had a similar dream. I went to him and asked him if he had dreamed anything about the firm. He said he had, and that he had been told that it would fail. We both decided to leave. I gave notice that I would leave, and in due time I started for Utah. Four months after I left, the firm failed, and seventy men were thrown out of employment. I was now out of employment. One evening the following week, I was returning home from a meeting of the —— quorum of Elders. As I walked along I wondered where I could get work, when the Spirit said to me, “Go to Brother P—— in the morning, and he will give you work.” I had not thought of going to him, but I knew the voice of the Spirit, and I went. I found him, and he gave me work, and I have been employed ever since. I have had other manifestations of the power of the Holy Ghost, and I know that the Lord is mindful of His children, and that He will guide them if they will only listen to the whisperings of His Spirit.”
— Unidentified Member, The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 61, No. 3
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 19 January 1899 (Vol. 61, No. 3). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1899-01-19_61_3 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high) Full first-person account: The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, 19 January 1899, Vol. 61, No. 3, p. 45 https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1899-01-19_61_3
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