After Joseph’s death Brigham and about one-third of the church left the states, and in a few years so altered their faith that the courts of Ohio and Missouri would not give them title to the original church property. Before Joseph Smith’s death he prophesied many times that if Brigham young ever led the church he would lead it to hell. If I can see aright, many of those who went with him have been facing in that direction for a number of years.

I next introduce the proof that Joseph Smith was a good, well behaved, christian man, and that the church over which he presided did not endorse polygamy, blood atonement, robbery, lying or theft. Nor was Joseph Smith guilty of such things. The first proof is the decision of Jon. Judge L. S. Sherman, in Court of Common Pleas, Lake County, Ohio, as found in the Journal Entry, February term, 1880. “The court do find as matters of fact *** that the church in Utah, the defendant, of which John Taylor is president [John Taylor was Brigham Young’s successor], has materially and largely departed from the faith, doctrines, laws, ordinances and usages of said original Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and has incorporated into its system of faith the doctrine of ‘celestial marriage or wives, and the doctrine of Adam-God worship, contrary to the laws and constitution of the original church.