Excerpt from With the Church in an Early Day To all who love right and the cause of truth this modest little volume is dedicated. It contains a simple narrative of some of the incidents in the history of a family, identified with the Church in its rise, and from that time until the year after the death of Joseph and Hyrum Smith. Inseparably connected with the events of these lives is an out line of the faith so precious to them that it became the power that shaped those lives; so precious to them that while the hardships they endured were a result of adherence to it, they were by it made strong to stand the storms of opposition because they had dug down deep and the foundation of that faith was laid upon the rock of eternal truth. It is said that every wise man builds his house upon a firm foundation, that when the winds rage and the floods beat upon it, it may not be moved. Was it wise for men to rise and with brute strength to seek to shake the deep principles of human souls? Was it wise for men to resort to extermination to crush out a religion of the teach ings of which they were ignorant? We do not ask, Was it right? We ask, Was it wise? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.