“Uncle” Allen Stout, Lizzie's uncle, used to come to live with us while he worked in the Temple . . . We all liked "Uncle Allen" and was glad to have him stay with us. He had used coffee for many years but when he came to work in the...
Elder Edwin Holden, an old veteran of the Church, and one who was intimately acquainted with Joseph Smith, makes the following statement in regard to what he recollects of the Prophet, and adds his testimony respecting his mission : "The first time I saw Joseph Smith was in 1831, in...
"At the time William Smith and others rebelled against the Prophet, as recorded in his history, when the walls of the Kirtland Temple were raised but a few feet above the ground, I attended a meeting 'on the flats,' where 'Joseph' presided. Entering the school-house a little before meeting opened,...
Elder John M. Chidester, of Washington, Washington County, Utah, joined the Church in its early days. He was born January 22, 1809, in New York, and was baptized in June, 1832. Of what he remembers of the Prophet he says: "My first recollection of seeing the Prophet Joseph Smith was...
Elder James Leech, who lives in Salt Lake City, relates the following incident in his experience on first meeting with the Prophet Joseph: "I was born on the 2nd of May, 1815, at Pilling Lane, Lancashire, England. About the year 1827, my parents, with their family, moved to Preston. In...
"At a conference in Nauvoo, Illinois, in the afternoon, while Sidney Rigdon was preaching one of his most powerful and eloquent sermons, the heavens began to gather blackness. He observed this and said to the Prophet, 'Is it going to rain?' He answered, 'Yes, and we had better dismiss the...
President Jesse N. Smith of Snowflake, Apache Co., Arizona, was born in Stockholm, St. Lawrence Co., New York, December 2, 1834, and was baptized into the Church between his eighth and ninth year, August 13, 1843. His parents had previously embraced the gospel and had joined the Saints in their...
"When playing in the yard of the old white mansion, in Nauvoo, with Joseph and Frederick, two of his sons, a gentleman drove to the gate and asked if the Prophet Joseph Smith was at home; when he (the Prophet) sprang up from the grass plat, and, shaking the dust...
“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...
