I traveled with Joseph Smith thousands of miles; have been associated with him and with the Apostles of our Church almost since its organization. I have heard Joseph Smith say in public and in private that if he were the emperor of the world, and had control of every human being on the face of the earth, he would give every man, woman and child the fullest liberty to enjoy their religion, and sustain them in it, let that religion be what it might.

This is my personal experience. I have traveled one hundred and sixty thousand miles in the last sixty years of my life. I have been in the Church about that length of time. I have traveled among the nations of the earth, the islands of the sea and in my own country. I have preached the Gospel, and I have never known, whenever I arose to speak to the people, what I was going to say. I have been de- pendent upon the inspiration of Almighty God, as have all the Elders in this Church.

Since the creation of man the Lord has never brought judgment upon any generation, upon any city, town or country, that I have ever read of, whenever they have been ripened in iniquity, until He has fully warned them by men raised up for that purpose, and they have rejected those men.