Before I came into the Church, Orson Hyde had become dissastisfied with the doctrine, and had left the Mormons in consequence of it. Being a man of slender means, he was obliged to betake himself to cutting cord-wood for a support. This business was not agreeable—he soon found his hands blistered, and himself wearied, and began to long for the flesh-pots of Egypt. He returned and desired Joe Smith to reinstate him, in his former office, as one of the Twelve Apostles. The conditions imposed by Joe Smith, some of us would consider a little tough. They were these: All the money he had so hardly earned had to be given up to Joe, and, also, his wife, as a ransom for his transgression, to obtain his former standing.