a poor wayfaring man of grief
“A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief” was the favorite hymn of Joseph Smith, Jr. The hymn was introduced to the LDS movement by Apostle John Taylor, who learned the hymn in 1840 as a missionary in England. On the afternoon that Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were killed by a mob in prison in Carthage, Illinois, on June 27, 1844 (165 years ago) the Smiths had … Read more
