Name: Testimony of the Book of Mormon
Uploaded: 2017-05-15T15:09:05.000Z
Duration: 4 min 40 s
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When Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum started for

Carthage to face what they knew would be an imminent

martyrdom, Hyrum read these words of comfort to the heart

Thou hast been faithful, wherefore thou shalt be made

strong even under the sitting down in the place with which I

have prepared in the mansions of my father.

A few short verses from the 12th chapter of Ether in the

Before closing the book, Hyrum turned down the corner of the

page from which he had read, marking it as part of the

everlasting testimony for which these two brothers were

I hold in my hand that book, the very copy from which Hyrum

Later when actually incarcerated in the jail,

Joseph the prophet bore a powerful testimony of the

divine authenticity of the Book of Mormon.

Shortly thereafter, pistol and ball would take the lives of

In this their greatest and last hour of need, I ask you

would these men blaspheme before God by continuing to

fix their lives, their honor, and their own search for each

eternal salvation on a book, and by implication a church

and a ministry they had fictitiously created out of

Never mind that their wives are about to be widows and

Never mind that their little band of followers will yet be

houseless, homeless, and friendless, and that their

children will leave footprints of blood across frozen rivers

Never mind that legions will die and other legions live

declaring in the four quarters of this earth that they know

Disregard all of that, and tell me whether in this hour

of death these two men would enter the presence of their

Eternal Judge quoting from and finding solace in a book which

if not the very word of God would brand them as impostors

They were willing to die rather than deny the divine

The Book of Mormon is true, and was given to bring

happiness and hope to the faithful in the

Brothers and sisters, God always provides safety for the

soul, and with the Book of Mormon he has again done that

Remember this declaration by Jesus himself.

Whoso treasureth up my word shall not be deceived, and in

the last days, neither your heart nor your

Of this I earnestly testify in the name of

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