A Voice of Warning and Instruction to all People

This great apostle and martyr of the nineteenth century was born on 12 Apr 1807 in Burlington, New York. In September, 1830, he left his home in Ohio and traveled east where he obtained a copy of the Book of Mormon. He was convinced of its divine authenticity and soon discovered that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had just been founded a few months earlier. He was immediately baptized and ordained an elder. Within the month he had also baptized his brother Orson. He was immediately called on a 1500-mile mission to go to western Missouri where the city of Zion will someday be built. He returned, met the Prophet Joseph Smith in the spring of 1831, and that summer went on another mission through Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri. In the autumn of 1833 he was one of some 1200 souls who were driven out of Missouri by furious mobs. He then went on another mission some 1500 miles east. In 1835 he was called to be one of the first 12 apostles of the LDS Church, and went on another mission to the eastern states. In 1836 he established a branch of the church in Toronto, Canada. In 1838 he moved to Caldwell County, Missouri, whereupon another dreadful persecution began. He was imprisoned for eight months without trial after which he escaped and published a history of the persecution which he had written in prison. Highly recommend this great book!