One York Shilling

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One York Shilling

Many years ago two missionaries were called to serve.  These were in the days when men with families were sometimes called to leave them, and that leaving had been particularly difficult for both of them. 

It was September 14th when at Great cost, they bid their wives adieu and left for New York City, where they would book passage across the Atlantic and begin their mission. 

As they journeyed across country they found at one point in Indiana, they had $13.50 between them. They paid passage on the stage and made it to Richmond, where they found somehow they had enough funds to go on to Dayton Ohio.  When they reach Dayton they stopped for the night expecting they would have to work for some time to earn enough money to go on, but one of the elders checked his trunk and discovered they had just enough to pay for their lodging and book passage to Cleveland. 

By the time they arrived for a stop in historic Kirtland they had one York Schilling left, or about $0.24. They took account of their expenditures and discovered that they had started out with $13.50 but they had spent $87. 

Along the way they have paid for continuous passage, ate three meals a day and paid for comfortable lodgings. Both Elders assumed the other had a secret stash of money that they were slipping into the kitty, but such was not the case. Their conclusion… it was an angel of the Lord seeing to their needs. And you know, perhaps they were right. Those two Elders were Brigham Young and Heber C Kimball. 

They traveled on with their Brethren and made history. That mission was the 1840 mission of the Quorum of The Twelve Apostles to Great Britain, a mission that forever changed the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, unified the Quorum of the twelve and provided the men that would lead the church for the rest of the 19th century. Indeed, the Lord owns all and looks after his own.

Copyright Glenn Rawson 2020