“During the winter of 1834-35, Heber attended the theological school established in Kirtland. Here originated the lectures on faith, formerly in the book of Doctrine and Covenants. It was the custom, at these meetings, to call upon a certain number to speak for the edification of others. Heber, on one...

Here is a recollection of the Prophet recorded by Philo Dibble:        “On one occasion Joseph was preaching in Kirtland in the fall of the year 1833. Quite a number of persons were present who did not belong to the Church; and one man, more bitter and skeptical than the...

“One of our church leaders came to my father to remonstrate against his allowing such close friendship between his family and the “Smith Boy,” as he called him. My father defended his own position by saying that Joseph was the best help he had ever found. He told the churchman...

ELDER JOHN LYMAN SMITH, brother to the late President George A. Smith, who now resides at St. George, Washington County, Utah, was born November 17th, 1828, at Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, New York. He was baptized at Kirtland, Geauga County, Ohio, when eight years of age. At this place he...

“When Joseph came to Kirtland his fame spread far and wide. There was a woman living in the town of Hiran, forty miles from Kirtland, who had a crooked arm, which she had not been able to use for a long period. She persuaded her husband, whose name was Johnson,...