Excerpt from History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Vol. 1: History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet; An Introduction and Notes President Brigham Young, and approved by him. We, therefore, hereby hear our testimony to all the world, ' unto whom these words shall come, that the history of Joseph Smith is true, and is one of the most authentic histories ever written. Their statement assuredly is true; and yet by a careful revision of the work they did and the correction of a few errors in dates and other details, the work has been brought to a still higher state of perfection. Where grammatical accuracy was violated in the original record it has been corrected, so far as observed; but no histor ical or doctrinal statement has been changed. Some changes will be observed in the matter of the biographies of the leading Elders of the early days of the Church. When a man of prominence connected himself with the Church, the Prophet Joseph usually gave a biographical Sketch of him in his own history, then writing; and sometimes these biographies were long and unduly inter rupted the movement of events. To rid the body of the work of this incumbrance it was decided to place all bio graphical matter in marginal notes; this made it necessary to condense very much those found in the Prophet's nar rative, while severe brevity - after accuracy - has been the aim in those prepared by the annotator. 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.