Show y Q i f r HISTORY OF OP JOSEPH SMITH AUGUST 1842 ag Sun dundov dov 21 1 I continued in in the assem lily birllo room orn this day sidney ri rigdon don went I 0 o ihn th meeting meeting me eting eling near the temple tempie and stated to the that lie lle wis not upon the llie stand to renounce lit ili hh faith in lit Monno mondo in as had llad been yai baj f stated bv enemies and licentious presses but app apperea ered to bear boar his testimony of or its ils rath truth ruth mild wid add another to the miny many miraculous evidences evid aces of or the power of god n nith ith raid he rise to deliver any regular discourse but to untold unfold to the audi ence a abene scene of dep d ep In interest which had occurred in his own family ile ili had witnessed many miny ird iri ill jil stances istance ao of f the power of god in ihs churell bli bit hut but never before had hf he seen the dead raised yet thi this was a thing th tt t had actually acta ally taken place in his own family his daughter eliza was dead the doctor told film that tint she was gone when after a consider able length leneth of time lime she rose up in ili the tiie bed and spoke in a very powerful tone to tile tiie following f cert in a supernatural manney manner she sald said to the ra mity mily that she was going to leave them being impress impressed d with th idea men herself that she slip had only comeback com 1 1 ack ark to deliver delver her message and alen tilen depart agin frying saying th lord had said to her er the tile very words she should relate and so particular was slie she site in her relation that she site would not suffer any person parson to 1 live leave ave ive out a word or add one she called the faily around her and bide them fill nil farewell with n composure and calmness that thit lenie lefie all description still impressed with the idea that hat she site was to go back up to the tho time lima of her death she expressed a mereat reat un unwillingness 1 willing neris to die but after her return she expressed equally as strong orona a dire to go back she said to her elder sister ninar it is i in it your heart to deny this work and if y you ou do lie lord says it will be he the tile damnation of your soul out iq in sp speaking aking g to her sister sarah she said srab sarah srah we have llave but once to die and Q I 1 would rather die dia now than wait for another time she said to her sisters that the lord had great bless nes illys in store for them if they continued in the falth faith and after delivering her mes sag slie she swooned but recovered again during this time she site was cold as she will be when laid in ili the grave and all the appearance or ofa life was the power of speech she thus con tinned tiri hed ned till the following evening for the space of ofa jt hirly itty siz six hopps when she called her father unto her bed in and d a dd lid to him that the llie lord had said j to her ithe if he would cease weeping for his sick daughter and dry up his tears fears that he should have all the tiie desires of his heart and that if ir lie he would go to bed and rest lie should be comforted over his sick daughter for in the morning she should bo be getting gelling better and should get well that the lord hid bid said unto hr her because that her father oather had dedicated dedi cited her to god and prayed to him for her that lie would restore lier her back to him hirn again this ceremony of dedicating and praying tog place when she was struggling ili in death tind find continued to the very moment of her departure and she says the lord told old her that allatt I 1 it w was as be c tuse of or this thia fill tint alit she site must go bick hick b ick to her father ag lii ili though she herself desired to stav stay i ae she sald said concerning george W robinson robin ion lon son as he lie had 71 denied danied the faith the lord had taken away one of his eye teeth and unless u he lie repented ha he i would take away another and concerning dr I 1 bennett thit th it ha het was a wicked mall mail and that the I 1 lord would tread him under his feet such is a small parton porton of what whit she related eider elder rigdon observed that there had been many an y adla to t iles tiles and reports abroad concerning him stating that he had denied the faith but lie would take tahe the opportunity to state that his faith i i was and had been unshaken in the truth it has I 1 also been rumored that I 1 b hileve alieve beve that joseph j smith h a fil f oil men tn prop liet in ili regard to this I 1 unequivocally state that I 1 never tho thought so but declare tint thit 1 I know lie is a prophet ol 01 if the lord called and chosen in thi this la last lart it diepen dispensation sat tio to roll rol 11 on the tho th kingdom of god for the lit lat last list time ile he closed by saying saving ris sis it regards hh hii religion lie had j no controversy with the tile world having havig an incon that thit through obedience to the tile ordinances ordinance ordin ancs 9 of or the religion he now bi bt lilves the lord hid actually ac finlly I 1 given griven back his daughter from tho dead no p person non nou need therefore come to rea reagon reason cin with him to convince him of error or make him bileve believe another religion unless those who profess it can call show that through a h obedience to its laws lawa the tiie dead hare hive been and can call be raised if it has ins no such power it would be insulting Insul tinZ his I 1 feelings to ask him to amson about it and if ir it had llad it would be no better belter than the on one lie he had i and so lie had hid done with controversy wherefore I 1 lie dealt in oads fads and not in ili theory president hyrum mith smith spoke at great length i and with great power ile he cited elder Rig dons mind back to the revelation concerning him film 1 that if he would move into the midst of the city and truth he should ba be heated healed ac and that what ulder elder rigdon felt in ili re I 1 erard r ird improvement in ili his health was a fill I 1 flim nt of or the revelation ile he then proceeded to show the tile folly of any persons attempting to ov or or destroy 1 joseph and read ir from ouy oay the dook book of mormon in j i various places concerning ther tha prophet who was prophesied cled should b raised up tip in fit the last days setting forth the work ha lie was wits destined to accorn elih and that lie lle had only just commenced but inasmuch as we could conid plainly see that tile tiie former part pirt of the prophecy had been literally fulfilled we might he be assured that the latter part would also bo be fulfilled and that jo joeph joseph eph would live to accomplish the great thins thin s concerning him ac ile he concluded his address by calling upon the saints ta to take courage and gear fear not and also told elder rigdon that inasmuch as he had llad seen the mercy of tiie the lord exerted in his behalf that it was liis his duty to arise and stand in ili defence of or tile tiie he I 1 truth and of ot fenior ence and of thor thoa who wiio were being persecuted innocently and finally called for all those who were willing to iti ill support aport and uphold joaeph joseph and who believed that lie he was doing his hs duty and was innocent of the charges alleged against him film by our enemies to hold up their right hands when almost every hand was raised and add no opposite vote when called for this meeting was productive of or great good by the saints with new zal and courage and weakening the hands and hearts of the treacherous and of evil and designing p parsons persons dispo sHo sno d to secret combinations against the truth elder rip rig rigdon odon edon visited brother hyrum in ili the course of or the dav day and manifested a determination to aronse arouse his energies in derence defence of ot the truth tuesday 22 1 I find my feelings of the instant towards rny my friends revved revived and while I 1 contemplate the virtues and the good qualifications and characteristics of the faithful few which I 1 am now recoding reco ding in the book of the law of the tile lord of fuch such as have stood by me in lit every hour of peril for these girteen long years past say sav for instance in my aged and beloved brothe brother rJoseph joseph knight sen sell who was among the number of or the first to administer to my necessities while I 1 was labor laboring iney in the commencement of the bringing forth of or the llie work of the lord and of laying the foundation of the church of jelits christ of or latter diy daiy saints for fifteen years lie he has been faithful and true and eren even handed an in I 1 exemplary and virtuous and kind never deviating to the right hand nor to tile the left behold he is a righteous man may god almighty lengthen out ont the old mans baysy days and may his trembling tortured and broken body he be renewed and find the vigor of health turn upon him if it can ba be thy will consistently 0 god ind alid it shall be sid of or him hy by the sons of jiin while white thene there is one of them remain remaining rema lnla inin ing inz that this man was a faithful man in israel I 1 therefore his name shall never be forgotten anere are ili lit his sons newel knight and joseph knight jun jan names I 1 record revord in the book of the tile law of the lord with unspeakable deli dell delight for they are my friends there are a numerous hot hod of faithful souls whose names I 1 could wi wish rh to recard record ili in the book of tile lie lle lw liw of tha tile ard hut but time and chance would fall fail I 1 will mention therefore th only a few of or them as embi magical of or those thosa are too numerous to be he written but there is one man ji boull mention namely orin porter rockwell II w who ho is now a fellow wanderer with myself at an exile from his home horn bdeau because of or the murderous deeds and iti fernal fiendish disposition of the in and unrelenting hand annd of the missouri ans r he tie is an innocent anda and a noble boy my god almighty deliver him from the tile handor his pursuers ife was an Il inocent innocent and a noble child and my sout soul loves him let this be recorded for ever and ever lt the blessings of salvation sal sil salvati oll oli and honor be I 1 is portion but bat as I 1 said before so say I 1 again while I 1 rem embe embT r the faithful few who ho are now living I 1 would remember also the faithful of my friend who are dead for they are many and many are the tha acts of kindness and paternal and brother brotherly lv kindnesses which they have lip ile bestowed stowed upon me and since I 1 have been hunted by tha the th many are the ilia acen scenes s which have been called to my mind many thoughts have rolled through my head and tind across mv my breast I 1 have remembered thes the scenes enes of my childhood I 1 have thinht of my ather father who Is dead who wiio died by disease willii it was upon him through suffering by the hands of ruthless mobs ile he was a gre at and a good man the envy of knaves and fools was heaped upon him and this waa was w vas da his lot and portion all the d days of his life ile lie was wits of noble stature antl and possessed pors pose sed essed a high and holy and exalt d and virtu virtuous ous lii lit mind ind his soll soul roa aoa soared led above all those mein main and grovelling gro velling principles that tint fire are fo so congenial to the human hart I 1 now say that lie he never did a mean act that might he be said was arim ungenerous nerous in lit his lire life to mv my knowledge I 1 loved M my father and bis his memory and the memory of ais his hig noble deed deeds rest with ponderous weight upon my mind and many of his kind kina and parental word worda to me are written on the tha tablet of my iny heart sacred to mo me are the tha thoughts whir whit b I 1 cherish of th liy lly 4 history of his life lire tint tivit have rolled through my iny mind and have been implanted there by mv my own ii since I 1 was born sacred S to me is his dust and the tha spot where lie ii laid sacred stored to me is the tile tomb I 1 have made to encircle oer oer his head lt let the memory of my rather father eternally live let ift lik ilk hi soul or the llie spirit my follies forgive with him hun may I 1 reign one day in the mansions above and tun up tip the lyre of 0 anthems or pf the eternal jove may the god that thai I 1 iove love look down from above and save me from my enemies here and take me by theland the hand that on mount zion I 1 may stand and with my fattler father crown me eternally there words and langu language ige are inadequate to express tile he gratitude that I 1 owe to god for having given me so honorable a parentage my mother also is one of f the noblest ad the best of all women may god grant to prolong her days and mine that we may live to enjoy each others society long yet in tile the enjoyment of liberty and to breath the free air alvin my oldest brother I 1 remember well the pang pangs of sorrow that swelled my youthful you bosom and almost burst my tender hert when he died he was the oldest and the noble noil norl st of my fathers family he was one of or the noblest of the sons of men shall his big name not ha be recorded in ili this tilis book yes alvin aigin let it be had here and be handed down upon these sacred pages for ever and ever ili in him there w ws wis s no guile ile he lived without spot pot from the time finie lie was a child from the file time of or his birth he lie never knew mirth ile he was candid and und sober and never would play and minded his father and mo molier moller flier filer in toiling all d day he was one of the soberest of or men and when whet he died the angel angal of of the lord visited him ili in his bis last moments these childish lines I 1 record in remembrance of my childish scenes my aly brother dou don carlos smith whose name I 1 des re to record also was a noble boy boyt I 1 i ear knew any fault ili in liim him I 1 never saw tile first immoral act or the first irreligious or ignoble disposition in fix the child from the time that lie was born till fill the time of his hh death lie was a lovely a rood natured a kind hearted and a vir virtuous tunus and a faithful upright child and where liis his soul goes let mine go also ile he lays by the side of my father let my father dan carlos alid and alvin and children that I 1 have buried burled be brought and laid in the tomb I 1 have buit built let my mother and my brethren bretl iren and my sisters ba be laid there also and let it be called tile the tomb of or jo joseph eph a descendant of jacob and slid when I 1 dle die die dle let me be gathered to the tha tomb of my father there are many souls soula whom I 1 have loved stronger than deat deal death h to them I 1 have hive proved faithful to them I 1 am determined to prove faithful faili ful fui until god calls ne we to resign up tip my breath 0 thou who seeth and the hearts of all men thou eternal omnipotent omniscient and omnipresent jehovah god thou etrheim Et El tha that t sit teth as mayeth mayeth the psalmist enthroned in ati headen look down own upon servant joseph at this time and iet lef faith oil on the mme name of thy son soil jesus christ to a greater degree than alian thy servant ever vet has enjoyed be conferred upon him even the faith of eillah elijah and let the lamp of eternal life lire be lit up in his heart never to be taken away and let tile the words of eternal lire life be poured upon upon the soul of thy servant tivit he lie may know will thy statutes and thy commandments and thy judt ju dimen to do them As the dews u upon on mount hermon tl ernon may the distillations of thy divine ivine grace glory and honor in the plenitude of thy mercy and power and goodness be poured down upon the hend hed bed of thy s 0 lord god my heavenly father ali sli II 11 it be in vain that thy servant must needs be exiled from the midst of his |