THE LIFE OF
JOSEPH SMITH
THE PROPHET
BY GEORGE Q. CANNON
SECOND EDITION
Salt Lake City, Utah
1907
PREFACE.
Joseph and Hyrum are now dead; but like the first martyr they yet speak. Their united voice is one of testimony, admonition and warning to the world.
They lived men of God. They died pure and holy, sealing their testimony with their blood.
No men ever suffered greater persecution than they: no men were ever less understood by their generation.
It is in the hope that the Saints may find joy in reading of their beloved Prophet and Patriarch, and that the world may judge more fairly of these benefactors of mankind, that this book is written.