Joseph Robinson's Childhood Witness of President Taylor's Prophecy

“I well remember when, as a raw country boy, I first came into this Tabernacle and heard President Taylor, addressing the congregation, and as he did so, he put up his coat collar, rounded up his shoulders and warned the brethren and sisters that there was a storm coming, and for them to prepare to meet it. He foreshadowed what would take place because of certain conditions, and predicted that our fathers and mothers would suffer, and many of them perhaps would die in exile, while others might be incarcerated in prison and our property confiscated. I put that down as the first utterance of a prophet of God that I had heard. Did I live to see the fulfillment of it? Why, I remember in my own father’s family, when on one occasion I went to visit him, as he did not rear me. The shades of night were falling, the sun was sinking in the west, and he came to bid me good night. I had thought to spend the night with him in converse, and so I said, “Father, you are not going away, are you!” Said he, “My boy, because I will not ignore those whom I have sworn to cherish and love, I must find safety in the caverns and rocks up here above our city,” and none of his sons knew where he laid his head at night.”

— Joseph Robinson, as recorded in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 66, No. 52