--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Jas. W. Lesueur collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 3 number: 9 published: 1900-07 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Jas. W. Lesueur, "The Way Cleared," *Improvement Era* 3, no. 9 (July 1900): 679.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera39unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera39unse start_page: 679 end_page: 679 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1900-07) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera39unse publication_year: 1900 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1900, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # The Way Cleared LETTERS FROM MISSIONARIES. THE WAY CLEARED. For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep f alleth upon man, in slumberings upon the bed; Then he openeth the ear? of men, and sealeth their instruction. Job. 33: 14-16. Nearly every missionary of The Church can testify of instances in which the Lord has prepared the way to warn the people. I give one of my experiences in this regard. It is only one among many others. During the fall of 1898, while laboring in Harrogate, York, England, my companion and I had difficulty in getting a foothold. Time and time again, we tried to reach the aristocracy as well as the poorer classes, but they all seemed to have no desires to cast aside their vanity and listen to the servants of the Lord. In the midst of these discouragements, we were very earnest in our pleadings for heavenly aid. One night, before retiring, we pleaded with the Lord to make known unto us some honest souls who might listen to our message. That same night "in a dream or vision of the night," I beheld myself walking to my tracting field, when a voice seemed to say to me: "Take that narrow path, and it will lead you to a small house by the side of the railroad." I obeyed and gained admittance into a signalman's cabin. He seemed to welcome me, and from my conversation with him, learned he was a religious-minded man, having studied the claims of many sects, but embraced none, as he had found none right. I received the impression that he had plenty of time to