Without Disclosing My True Identity
foundation of the government you now enjoy, and we never apostatized from it, but we remained true to
it and were faithful to God.’ ...I straightway went into the baptismal font...for the signers of the
Declaration of Independence, and fifty other eminent men, making one hundred in all, including John
Wesley, Columbus, and others; I then baptized [brother McCallister] for every President of the United
States, except three.” (See also The Discourses of Wilford Woodruff, ed. G. Homer Durham, 160–1.)
See also 17 Miracles, by T. C. Christensen, perf. Jasen Wade, Nathan Mitchell, Emily Wadley,
Thomas Ambt Kofod, and Jason Celaya, Excel Entertainment and Remember Films, 2011.
(^52) HR, 13:31.
(^53) “Great Famine (Ireland),” Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 7 Jul. 2011, Wikimedia Foundation,
Inc., 10 Jul. 2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland).
(^54) The so-called “White Horse Prophecy” has been reproduced and circulated both in and out
of the LDS Church for many years; but no one has ever produced the original handwritten copy of it.
Attributed to Joseph Smith on or about 6 May 1843, it was supposedly given in the presence of two
men: Edwin Rushton and Theodore Turley. It presumably consisted of many individual prophecies
and touched on such things as “four horses” with colors of white, red, black, and pale, and the better
known one where Joseph purportedly said, “You will see the Constitution of the United States almost
destroyed; it will hang by a thread, and that thread as fine as the finest silk fiber.” Many books and
articles have been written on the subject of the White Horse Prophecy. For example, see Ogden Kraut,
The White Horse Prophecy (Salt Lake City: Pioneer, 1993); George Cobabe, “The White Horse
Prophecy,” FAIR, Defending Mormonism, 2003, The Foundation for Apologetic Information and
Research, 10 Jul. 2011 http://www.fairlds.org/pubs/whitehorse.pdf; and Sandra Tanner, “Joseph
Smith’s ‘White Horse’ Prophecy,” Utah Lighthouse Ministry, 2010, Utah Lighthouse™ Ministry, 10 Jul.
2011 http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/whitehorseprophecy.htm.
(^55) “Conference Report,” Oct. 1918, p. 58, as quoted in Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, 835–6.
(^56) Attributed to Joseph Smith in his purported “White Horse Prophecy.” See also D. Michael
Stewart, “I Have a Question,” Ensign, Jun. 1976: 64–5. “What do we know about the purported statement
of Joseph Smith that the Constitution would hang by a thread and that the elders would save it?”
(^57) Revelation 6:2.
(^58) D&C, 101:80; 109:54.
(^59) BOM, 3 Nephi 12–14; Matthew 5–7.
(^60) Compare BOM, 3 Nephi 13:19; Matthew 6:19.
(^61) Compare BOM, 1 Nephi 13:6; 14:3, 9, 17; See also 666 America, 83, 294.
(^62) Revelation 13:11; 666 America, 303–6.
(^63) See Introduction, n. 56.
(^64) Compare Revelation 6:2; 19:11.
(^65) Revelation 19:15.
(^66) Compare Revelation 18:3, 11, 15.
(^67) Dean C. Jessee, “Joseph Smith’s 19 July 1840 Discourse,” as quoted in “The Historians
Corner,” ed. James B. Allen, BYU Studies, 19:3 (Spring 1979) 392, emphasis added.
(^68) D&C, 26:2.
(^69) Compare BOM, 3 Nephi, chapter 6.
(^70) Lucy Smith, Progenitors, 36. (Born June 13, 1840.)
(^71) Lucy Smith, Progenitors, 32. (Died Sept 14, 1840.)
(^72) See ch. 34, n. 9.