Somewhere along the six-hour horseback ride from Nauvoo to Carthage, Ill., where Joseph Smith was martyred in 1844, he shared with his small group of travel companions a foreboding that he would soon be killed. “But,” he said, “I am calm as a summer’s morning; I have a conscience void of offense toward God, and toward all men.”
That’s how Joseph Smith — the founding prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — described his own conscience, days before being fatally attacked by a 150–200-person mob.
But in the years since Joseph Smith’s death, another kind of mob has grown, comprised of those aiming to sully his reputation.
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