659. Today is the 172nd anniversary of the Martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith -- Sad day!
On June 27, 2014, I posted entries # 175 and 176 about the martyrdom. And on June 27, 2015, I also posted # 449. Each of those tell different details of the conspiracy to take the lives of the best men in this dispensation. They truly did seal their testimonies with their blood! Latter Day Light DAILY DEVOTIONAL June 27, 2016 Martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY Doctrine & Covenants 135:6 "Hyrum Smith was forty-four years old in February, 1844, and Joseph Smith was thirty-eight in December, 1843; and henceforward their names will be classed among the martyrs of religion; and the reader in every nation will be reminded that the Book of Mormon, and this book of Doctrine and Covenants of the church, cost the best blood of the nineteenth century to bring them forth for the salvation of a ruined world. " QUOTE OF THE DAY David O. McKay "The lives of the Prophet, of his brother, Hyr