Brigham Young Gives His Five-Dollar Bill to Help Joseph Smith — and the Next Day Has Just as Much Money as Before

When money was being raised to support Joseph Smith, Brigham Young took the five-dollar bill out of his pocket and threw it in — then, as he testified in 1860, "the next day I had just as much as I had before I gave away the five dollars." He named it among the direct proofs he had personally received that God sustains His servants who put His work first, recounting the incident as one of several instances in which the Lord multiplied the money he had given away in the Lord's service.

Fuller account of this event (in the witness’s own words):

And I do know that I once took a five-dollar bill out of my pocket, when we were raising money for brother Joseph, and threw it in, and that the next day I had just as much as I had before I gave away the five dollars. I do know that when I went to pay some money that I owed, after giving some away to the poor, I had just as much when, I came to pay my debts as I had before I gave any to the poor. I do know that I handed out a half-eagle to a poor man in my office, and then found two half-eagles in my pocket that I never put there. And I also do know that I never hungered or thirsted for property.