Apostle George Teasdale's Testimony and Manifestation of Power

“Apostle Geo. Teasdale said Joseph Smith was sent of God, or he was not. If God had sent him, then those who rejected him rejected God. He embraced the Gospel in 1852. It was an anti-“Mormon” tract which led him into the Church, for it caused him to investigate for himself. He went to the Lord, and the Lord revealed to him that the Gospel was true. He had known for many years that the work in which he was engaged was the work of God. He could not understand why men should choose to believe falsehood rather than truth, except that those who did believe the Gospel were those whose names were written in the Lamb’s book of life. This was a great dispensation; the Elders were called by revelation; they could not baptize or lay on hands without authority; they were but instruments, it was God Himself who gave the Holy Ghost. He knew that those in connection with the Elders around him, had been sent of God, and the days would come when the world would know it (President Teasdale here prayed that God would bless the Elders around him, and said he knew that God would bless them. The power that accompanied these remarks was such as to make a deep impression on all who heard them, and will not be soon forgotten. Truly God is with the Elders of Israel!). — Millennial Star 50:7”