An image of Joseph Smith Sr., by an unknown hand, done prior to 1856
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Joseph Smith\u2019s sincerity appears in the incidental glimpses of him that we obtain from many of his contemporaries. \u00a0Here, for example, is the account given by Joseph\u2019s mother, Lucy Mack Smith, of the baptism of her husband:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nOn the morning of the sixth day of [April], my husband and Martin Harris were baptized.<\/span><\/p>\nWhen Mr. Smith came out of the water, Joseph stood upon the shore, and taking his father by the hand, he exclaimed, with tears of joy, \u201cOh, my God! Have I lived to see my own father baptized into the true Church of Jesus Christ!\u201d On the same day, April 6, 1830, the church was organized.<\/span><\/p>\nManuscript variants of Lucy\u2019s account mention that Joseph \u201ccovered his face\u201d and \u201cwept like [an] infant.\u201d Joseph Knight, Sr., was also a witness to the emotion of the day:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThere was one thing I will mention that evening that old Brother Smith and Martin Harris was Babtised. Joseph was fild with the Spirrit to a grate degree to see his Father and Mr. Harris that he had Bin with so much he Bast [burst?] out with greaf and Joy and seamed as tho the world Could not hold him. He went out into the Lot and appeard to want to git out of site of every Body and would sob and Crie and seamed to Be so full that he could not live. Oliver and I went after him and Came to him and after a while he Came in. But he was the most wrot upon that I ever saw any man. But his joy seemed to Be full. I think he saw the grate work he had Begun and was Desirus to Carry it out.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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