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Protection & Deliverance

39 accounts from the Nauvoo, Illinois Miracles collection

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Levi Hancock Shot Point-Blank in the Chest — God Destroys the Power of the Bullet(1844)
A Bullet Through His Coat: How Ellis Eames and His Family Were Preserved at Haun's Mill (1838)
Denison L. Harris and Robert Scott's divine warning and escape from the Nauvoo conspirators(1844)
The Miraculous Crossing of the Frozen Mississippi River(1846)
Brigham Young's Temple Prophecy — 'Not a Man Shall Be Hurt' on the Exodus Through Iowa (1846)
Eight Icarian Masons Miraculously Escaped Crushing by Falling Temple Walls(1850)
The Skeptic Who Stood on the Bench: Lewis Barney's Answer to the Mob (1840)
Orrin Porter Rockwell's Deliverance from Missouri Dungeon(1843)
Daniel Allen Jr.: Joseph Smith's Bodyguard, the Sleeping-Cap Deliverance, and a Pioneer's Sacrifice (1804–1892)(1844)
Divine deliverance of the author and A. W. Babbitt from a Carthage mob(1844)
The Hickory-Stick Stand: Shadrach Roundy Turns Back Forty Men at Joseph Smith's Gate (June 1844)
Brigham Young's Deliverance from a U.S. Marshal through William Miller's Disguise(1845)
The Last Man Standing at Pony Creek: Edson Whipple, Delivered from Death to the Vanguard Company (1846–1847)
William Clayton — Miraculous preservation during 1840 voyage from England to America
Joseph Smith's deliverance from Missourians in Nauvoo(1842)
Joseph Smith's deliverance from carriage accident on the road to Nauvoo(1843)
Nathan Bigelow's Providential Escape from Mob Soldiers(1845)
Edwin Pettit's Escape to Zion — Hidden Alone on the Prairie, Then Delivered Across the River Disguised as "Mary Ann" (1846)
Bidamon, Lewis C.: Protector of the Mansion House (1840s)(1847)
Steadying the Capsizing Wagon: Andrew S. Gibbons' Platte River Rescue and Two Days Lost on the Prairie (1847)
Reynolds Cahoon — Guarding the Prophet and Divine Warning at the Mansion House(1844)
Daniel Allen — Miraculous Protection from Nauvoo Mob(1845)
Joseph Smith Miraculously Preserved After Being Thrown from a Wagon While Seriously Ill(1839)
Wilford Woodruff's miraculous preservation during the Chesapeake steamer wreck(1841)
William Clayton - Swift Deliverance and Safe Passage After Warning Joseph Smith of Arrest(1843)
William Davenport — Divine Warning and Protection in Nauvoo(1844)
Divine Sustenance and Protection of Missionaries Returning from Great Britain(1841)
Shadrach Roundy: Joseph Smith's Towering Bodyguard, Mentioned in Doctrine and Covenants 124(1842)
Joseph Smith and family's preservation from carriage accident(1842)
Elder Jonathan Dunham's Miraculous Preservation in the Prairie(1843)
Tarleton Lewis — Divine Protection During Temple Construction(1844)
Jacob B. Backenstos: The Gentile Sheriff Who Defended the Saints in Nauvoo (1844–45)(1845)
Reynolds Cahoon — Protection During the Nauvoo Exodus(1846)
Thomas C. Callister — Protection during the Nauvoo Exodus(1846)
150 Nauvoo Defenders Repulse an 800-Man Mob in the Battle of Nauvoo (1846)
John Wardrobe's protection while working on the Nauvoo Temple(1846)
William Clayton's Journey Protection and Safe Passage Through Indian Territories(1847)
George A. Smith's Preservation During Train Collision(1856)
Mary Gibbs Bigelow and Nahum Bigelow: Endurance during 1840s Missouri–Illinois persecutions and the Nauvoo exodus(1845)

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