said while was speaking he had an impression that we are not going far away; and it would require the word from the to convince him that we had to go far. We read in the revelations that the Angel was told to stay his hand for a little season untill the servants of God should be sealed in their forheads. There is an anxiety among our beloved brethren the Twelve to roll forth the building of the . The day is to come when one shall chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight. While was speaking of going three months journey to he thought of the time when his feet, and the feet of his children were frozen by travelling in the cold.
The enemy cant drive us from here untill we get ready to go. We will put our trust in our heavenly father. He feels that it is our duty to [p. [96]]
This is likely a reference to the Latter-day Saints’ expulsion from Missouri during the winter of 1838–1839. Cornelius Lott and his wife, Permelia Darrow Lott, and their eight children were among those expelled. (Vance, Descendants of Cornelius Peter Lott, 493.)
Vance, Rhea Lott. Descendants of Cornelius Peter Lott, 1798–1972. No publisher, ca. 1972.