Lawyer Defended by Audible Voice
Published October 13, 2026 at 6:16 AM
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Millennial Star Research
During a court hearing regarding a trumped-up charge against Joseph Smith, a lawyer was divinely prompted to defend the Prophet after hearing a mysterious, audible voice commanding him to do so.
In Their Own Words
“Upon one occasion when the Prophet Joseph Smith was arrested upon a trumped up charge, a lawyer was influenced to defend him in court through hearing a mysterious, audible voice commanding him to do so. — Millennial Star 68:3”
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), Vol. 68, No. 03 (1906). https://archive.org/details/millennialstar6803eng (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high)
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