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 wrest them from him. But almighty power and wisdom prevailed, and the sacred relics were safely kept till the day the messenger called for them, when they were delivered into his hands, Joseph meanwhile having accomplished by them all that was required of him.

And now so fierce becomes the fiery malevolence of the enemy that Joseph is obliged to fly. He is very poor, having absolutely nothing, until a farmer named Martin Harris has pity on him and gives him fifty dollars, with which he is enabled to go with his wife to her old home in Pennsylvania.[ Immediately after his arrival there in December, he begins copying the