And Martin became the perfect believer. “He said he had no more doubt of Smith’s commission than of the divine commission of the apostles,” wrote J. A. Clark, who knew him in these years. “The very fact that Smith was an obscure and illiterate man showed that he must be acting under divine impulse: ‘God had chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things to confound the mighty’ ... he was determined that the book should be published though it consumed all his worldly substance.” * Henceforth he was Joseph’s champion, and his liberal purse became the cornerstone
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