“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,...

       “In August, 1843, there was an excursion on the little boat down the river to Quincy, Ill. The Mayor of that city had invited the Prophet, and some of the leading citizens of Nauvoo to be his guests for the day, and he was at the landing to receive...

Two days before President George A. Smith delivered a discourse in Salt Lake City on May 24, 1874, General A. W. Doniphan came to visit Salt Lake City. President Smith reminded the saints of the role General Doniphan played thirty-six years before in helping the saints, and in stopping the...

Oliver B. Huntington tells of an incident he heard Joseph relate just after he returned from Washington, D.C., when President Martin VanBuren told him, “Your cause is just but I can do nothing for you.” “He said that he was one day riding with other gentlemen and some lady passengers...

The following incident was related to Brother James Bird by Brother O. B. Huntington, of Springville, Utah, who was wise enough to keep a daily journal during his whole life: “It was in 1842 or 1843, at Nauvoo, that Joseph Smith the Prophet had such a time with his horse,...