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Hyrum Smith
The Patriarch And A Witness Of The Book Of Mormon
An elder brother and the steadfast friend and counselor of Joseph Smith, the Prophet.
Born at Tunbridge, Vermont, February 9th 1800; suffered martyrdom with the Prophet at Carthage, Illinois, on the 27th of June, 1844.
The friendship of the brothers Hyrum and Joseph Smith is foremost among the few great friendships of the world's history. Their names will be classed among the martyrs for religion.
The Book of Mormon -- the plates of which Hyrum Smith both saw and handled; the revelations in the Book of Doctrine and Covenants; the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- these, to bring them forth for the salvation of the world, cost the best blood of the nineteenth century.
"I could pray in my heart that all men were like my brother Hyrum, who possesses the mildness of a lamb and the integrity of Job: and, in short, the meekness and humility of Christ. I love him with that love that is stronger than death."
-- Joseph Smith
"If ever there was an exemplary, honest and virtuous man, an embodiment of all that is noble in the human form, Hyrum Smith was the representative"
-- President John Taylor
As he shared in the labors, so does he share in the honor and glory of the new dispensation with his prophet brother.
In life they were not divided: in death they were not separated; in glory they are one |