"The impression created
upon my young mind in the inspired utterances of Joseph
Smith [has] accompanied me throughout my subsequent life;
and when darkness would otherwise have beclouded my mind,
his testimony has come up vividly before me, giving me
evidence that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints has been established and governed by the manifest
power and authority of God. It has been as a beacon light,
that shone forth, amidst the greatest darkness my mind ever
experienced, accompanied by a power and heavenly influence,
indescribable. . . .
"That Joseph Smith lived
and died a Prophet of God and that he [and] his brother
Hyrum were pure and chaste and worthy of the people's love
is beyond doubt in my mind, as a humble disciple of Jesus."
In "Joseph Smith, the Prophet," Young Woman's Journal, Dec. 1906, 546–47; punctuation and grammar modernized.
