35-xx-xx ep12Brigham Young

Frontier fighters. Static recitals of the early pioneers who explored and settled the far west.

One of the most noted, one of the most courageous of these was Brigham Young, successor to Joseph Smith, founder and president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons. In the jail of Carthage, Illinois, June 27, 1844, Joseph Smith and his brother, Haram, have voluntarily surrendered to the authorities and await trial for charges arising from the

teachings of their church. I fear, Hiram, that this is the end. Hillseth, my brother. What crime did we or our followers commit that the Gentiles persecute us this way? My vision and the revelation Hiram of the Book of Mormon equal in our faith with the Bible.

If that mob outside is decreed our death, Joseph, who will be our people's temporal and spiritual leader after you're gone? God will guide our people in their choice, but my successor will be a strong man and a devout man.

and of great enterprise who will be humble before God. Look, Joseph. Look, that mob of men, they're coming close to the jail. The faces are blackened. Yes, Hiram, I see. Time draws near. Remember Paul's message to the Ephesians, Hiram, having made no one to watch the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure.

Which he has purposeed in himself. And in the distancing prison, the blasting fire of Joseph. The news of the double murder of Joseph and Hiram Smith reached Brigham Young while he was in England doing missionary work.

But upon hearing of Joseph Smith's death, he returned to novel Illinois and was elected to succeed Joseph Smith. Persecution of the Mormons continued with unbated fury. Then early in 1846, it was decided that the entire community would migrate to the far west.