Follow Him: A Come, Follow Me Podcast - Baptism Rocks • followHIM Favorites • September 8-14 • Come Follow Me

Episode Date: September 4, 2025

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Welcome to follow him favorites. This is where John and I are sharing a single story to go with each week's lesson. John, this week, section 98 through 101. We need a story. You told me you have one. I do. And sometimes, Hank, we hear these stories of early saints and we say, I can relate to that. And sometimes we go, I cannot relate to that at all.

I'm looking at section 101, verse 22. It's a phrase we've heard a few times in the Doctrine of Covenants. This is it. Behold, it is my will that all they who call on my name and worship me according to my everlasting gospel should gather together and stand in holy places. Hank, I want to tell you about a young woman named Hannah Last Cornaby. She's in Yarmouth, England, Y-A-R-M-O-U-T-H-H-Y-A-R-M-E-M-E-N.

She went to get baptized in Yarmouth. Now, it was not a quiet, reverent experience. So here's what she said. We found the house surrounded by a mob, through which we with difficulty made our way. Before we reached the water's edge, the whole horde was upon us. And my husband baptized me amid a shower of stones and shouts. I just like that at a baptism. We'll be over here. You guys throw the rocks. And although the stones whizzed around us thick as hail, Not one touched us, and we reached home in safety, thanking God for our miraculous deliverance. I just don't go to the meeting if there's a mob around my house.

I just say, I'm going to skip it today. But she wanted so much to be baptized that in the midst, they're throwing rocks. I mean, you've heard the church history story where they keep breaking the dam in the creek so that they keep destroying the font. What should be such a wonderful experience, and it reminds me of the hymn that we've sung before, who's on the Lord's side who? Now is the time to show. We ask it fearlessly who's on the lord's side who. And listen to these other verses. We serve the living God and want his foes to know that if but few we're great who's on the Lord's side who. We're going on to win. No fear must

blanch the brow. The Lord of hosts is ours who's on the Lord's side who. But it keeps going. the stone cut without hands to fill the earth must grow who will help it to roll on who's on the lord's side who now if you've ever sung that hymn number 260 the text is written by hannah last quote oh wow i didn't know that don't you love it when the backstory fits i wrote this song about my baptism she wrote those words and she was the one that was dodging rocks as she got baptized. But she wanted to say, I'm on the Lord's side. This is being baptized Hannah's way. The next time someone gets baptized, maybe we'll say, do you want to replay this? Yeah. Hannah. We'll show you what some people have done when they've been baptized. Wow. Let me tell you about Hannah last Cornaby's baptism. Yeah. We hope you'll join us on our full podcast. It's called Follow Him. You can get it wherever you get your podcast. We're with Dr. Derek Kingsbury this week, and he shares some stories from his childhood that kind of match John Murdoch's

childhood. These are some really difficult but moving stories. Then come back here next week. We'll do another follow him favorite.