Earlier today, I posted a quotation from William Smith about his brother Joseph’s alleged laziness. Various critics, in the nineteenth century and still today, have claimed that he founded his church as a way of making money without work — which would seem to suggest that he wasn’t merely lazy but unspeakably stupid.
The claim that the Smiths were lazy is, as it turns out, demonstrably false. I pointed this out in a Deseret News article some years ago:
Posted from Victor, New York