Sister Noble's Instant Witness of Joseph Smith's Prophetic Calling
Published October 21, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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Sister Noble, a convert from England, possessed a testimony of the Gospel but struggled with the witness that Joseph Smith was a true prophet. While walking to a meeting, she received an instantaneous voice confirming this truth.
In Their Own Words
“One evening I was going as usual to the cottage meeting, when such a desire came to my heart as I went down the road that I could declare to my brothers and sisters that Joseph Smith was a true prophet of the Lord. And in a moment it seemed like a voice said, You can say it now, and I said, Yes, I can say it; I know that he is a true prophet of the Lord. That is the answer that I received, and I went forward to the meeting and I declared it, and I have declared it ever since. The testimony that was given to me instantaneously.”
— Sister Noble, The Young Woman's Journal
Sources & References
The Young Woman's Journal, vol. 27 no. 10 (October 1916). L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University digital collections. https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/YWJ/id/19096 (account extracted verbatim from the collection's page-level OCR; research confidence: high) Full first-person account: The Young Woman's Journal, vol. 27 no. 10 (October 1916), p. 596 https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/YWJ/id/19096
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