Deseret Evening News | 1910-06-18 | Page 30 | A Living Testimony

A LIVING TESTIMONY Inder tho ho above heading the I II Journal publishes tho Iho fol rol following letter from L I lowing Iler gler laboring In n the In conference curiosity by h nn an Having our I rOi recently published In the Mil Milwaukee 11 waukee Sentinel claiming that tho Iho former appearance of oC the Ihn comet mel In tho Iho vestern alm skies kO trad It aided tho th rise of oC and how It II Illuminated the western trail which noon to 10 tobe be 0 tt by ox teams ni handcart companies nn route roul to 10 the Ih land of oC tho west 1 I 1 President B mist visited the Ihl author Miss 18 l aged 90 0 who with her hr brother Newman aged 81 88 SS n I ulster 11 1 who and S SI live nt West al Is Iro neighbors to 10 and acquaintances Innel or if the Iho Prophet Joseph Joh Smith The TIl fact nd that tho hI 90 long years lr hAd lot In II the least caused her memory to 10 the h weight dim nil 11 more mor WIC to bOle tl the story lor which Mho ho I o cheerfully told tol regarding the Ih rise of oC tho Iho Church md of oC the he before rl Its l organization lr careful to 10 tion W f w re r especially ns al to bow tho ho Smith family wo 1 regarded by b tho Iho people of or that locality who ho wore were not members of oC tho Iho Her exact words on 01 this Ihl subject were werl 1 I nothing to 10 say Y against n tho Iho Smiths They The representative eople They wore peaceful rul neighbors and although not educated I In book bok no ono one could I y th y were 10 they th Socially or r I I I to In be jovial and not nol vuro r nl 11 b of or wry wr faces Cne a 11 wo 0 have hao heard In n personality Jeph Smith Jr was tall well proportioned anil good 10 wal lil el His 11 character was WAi good and andona one ona could tell 11 at al sight that ho hl was WI a great man manTho Tho of oC m of oC the he letter class of oC people many m I of oC whom fortunes that tai they the might moo nest t with wll the he body of oC the th Church ChurchIn In answer to 10 our question as aM to 10 what Ih he thought of or the early Arl persecutions of oC our people she oh wild I consider tho Iho n of oC the Mormons the Ihl of or the hI Nauvoo temple cruel rlland and Inhuman act Irl while the he martyr martyrdom dom of oC Joseph Smith Wil cry eo uncalled for as 11 hid hit actions would war warrant rant anything but hUI I treatment After two hours hour had beon spent nt In ami conversing on In early cArl Church history hl or we WA left 1 receiving a 1 hearty hEHr Invitation to 0 call again I L I Conference