Show EDWIN HOLDENS TESTIMONY provo utah june 23 1894 brother edwin holden of this city bofty desires to write you and to 10 beartle arble be bear bla testimony to the various old gold timi time residents of nauvoo and aind missouri MiB aoun I 1 was born bora on the ath ot june jund 1807 1801 being now in my year I 1 iwas was personally known to and saw the prophet joseph smith I 1 first saw him in the fall of 1834 at geneses genesee new york state where he and add sidney were preaching preach ing in a barn it was wag crowded but by perseverance igo I 1 got on the rafters he preached a powerful discourse and I 1 know knew he Wk was a prophet of god that testimony has as grown and is growing as his predictions come to ao page both in volume and in power 1 I remained in that neighborhood until after he was out of jail in missouri after he was free I 1 went to nauvoo went to his home and asked to be baptized he came with me called a brother harris who baptized me in the mississippi river the net day being the sabbath I 1 was continued confirmed by elders orson pratt and PP pratt I 1 have been and am still a member of the church in reading john li smiths remarks about incidents of the church which he be so graphically relates with some of which I 1 was personally acquainted my memory went b back oat to the wild scenes be describes in his bis account on the storm on oh the night both companies turned tamed out at to protect joseph it was the biggest storm that hat I 1 have hare ever seen joseph joaeph sold there would not a hair balcof of our head be lost and not one was wae though the he preservation of our lives is and was wae most miraculous affair what the fathera athers of the church went vent through in these theme daye clays of our young people have no conception of but the lord will toot teat and try every faithful coul to ID their utmost and their hearts content be assured of that M B |