In a General Conference, Melvin J. Ballard believes Joseph Smith did say Constitution would hang by a thread but that the Saints would play a pivotal role in its preservation.

Date
Apr 9, 1933
Type
Speech / Court Transcript
Source
Melvin J. Ballard
LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Verbatim
Unsourced
Reference

Melvin J. Ballard, Conference Report (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1933): 127

Scribe/Publisher
Conference Report
People
Melvin J. Ballard, Joseph Smith, Jr.
Audience
Latter-day Saints
Transcription

I believe that it is the destiny of the Latter-day Saints to support the Constitution of the United States. The Prophet Joseph Smith is alleged to have said—and I believe he did say it—that the day would come when the Constitution would hang as by a thread. But he saw that the thread did not break, thank the Lord, and that the Latter-day Saints would become a balance of power, with others, to preserve that Constitution. If there is—and there is one part of the Constitution hanging as by a thread today—where do Latter-day Saints belong? Their place is to rally to the support of that Constitution, and maintain it and defend it and support it by their lives and by their vote. Let us not disappoint God nor his prophet. Our place is fixed.

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