LIFE & JOURNAL - Christian Israelite Church

1819-1822
wages.” The young man began to be ill immediately after, and
continued for about nine months, and then died, and he never
took any more work in from the day that the words were spoken
to him. Many are witnesses to the truth of this.
It was also made known to John that the foreman, who joined
with the young man in the abuse, would also die shortly (which
he told to Joseph Wroe), and he died about a year after the
young man; but before he died he became so offensive that no
one could bear near him. From Joseph Wroe and William
Muff.
One night (in 1820 or 1821), being awake, I heard a noise
like dry corn falling upon the floor, and I also felt it fall upon
the bed, and my wife heard and felt the same; this was some
time before reaping time. Nearly at the time my corn should
have been reaped, there came a very strong wind one night, by
which much of my corn was blown off, and lost upon the
ground.
In the year 1822, when my corn was just above ground, it
was shewn to me fully grown, and upon each stalk three ears.
When it was grown up it was really so, there were three ears on
each stalk, and it was a threefold crop.
For curiosity, ears of this corn were taken into different parts
of the kingdom, and part of it was kept for some time by the
committee of our friends, at Bradford, in the committee-room.
From the many losses which I had had in trade, and what I
had lost by my brother and others, I was much in debt; but the
corn which I sold that year, it being such an unusually good
crop, enabled me to pay most of my debts. The same kind of
seed had been sown by my father many years past, but he had
never any crop like this, neither have I had any like it since.
Several people who took ears of it sowed it in their grounds the
year after, but it only came up one ear on a stalk as other wheat.
On the 14 th of August, 1822, about eight o’clock in the
morning, being sat in my house talking with three men, not
believers, I heard a voice several times, and I looked at them to
see if they noticed, and I asked them if they heard anything;