Testimony of William Morley Black

At John R. Young's house February 9, 1914, several gentlemen, some of them strangers to us and not of our faith, in conversation with Father Black, asked if he had ever been sorry that he joined the Mormon Church. With great earnestness he testified that after baptism he received a testimony that Joseph Smith was a Prophet of God; that he lived and died a righteous man, and that testimony had stayed undimmed with him until the present day.


Tuesday evening, February 10, the Ward teachers visited us. During the visit Father Black arose and testified, "I know that God lives, and that Joseph Smith was and is a true prophet, and I know that his life's labors were approved by the Father, and that Joseph has received a crown of glory as a reward for his faithfulness, and I want this testimony incorporated with what follows:

"Feeling grateful to my Heavenly Father for his leading me to a knowledge of the Gospel of His Son which has brought to me an ordination to the Patriarchal priesthood and by it I have received the blessing of wives and numerous posterity, and that my children may know that I am humbly proud and thankful for these blessings.”