1/28/2019 - Section 135:1-7
January 28, 2019 Section 135:1-7 Martyrdom of Joseph Smith, Charity, Lord Can Direct Our Lives if We Let Him, Prayers What to Include, This section, by John Taylor, is written “ to seal the testimony of this book and the Book of Mormon”. John Taylor and Willard Richards, both apostles, were in the room with Joseph and Hyrum when the mob attacked. V 2 speaks of Elder Richards saying “ through the providence of God escaped, without even a hole in his robe.” I never knew the following: “ Dr Richards’ escape was miraculous; he being a very large man, and in the midst of a shower of balls, yet he stood unscathed, with the exception of a ball witch grazed the tip end of the lower part of his left ear. His escape fulfilled literally a prophecy which Joseph made over a year previously, that the time would come that the balls would fly around him like hail, and he should see his fiends fall on the right and on the left but that there should not ...