Prophet Joseph Smith wrote in a letter to a newspaper editor
named John Wentworth on March 1, 1842: “Persecution has not stopped the
progress of truth, but has only added fuel to the flame. . . .
“. . . The Standard of Truth has been erected; no unhallowed
hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may
combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go
forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent,
visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the
purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the Great Jehovah shall say the work
is done” (in History of the Church, 4:540).
