We, of the committee from , all took the speaker’s desk. And when near the close, who should come into the hall but Joseph Smith himself. We speedily got him up on the stand and I had the honor of introducing him to that vast audience. He had just come in on the train from , and was tired; but he arose by the invitations of many who called for him, and on that occasion he uttered as a prophecy one of the most wonderful predictions of his life. He adverted to the statements made by this George C. Cookman, declaring them to be wilfully and wickedly false, and that if he, Cookman, did not take it back and acknowledge that he had dealt falsely of him, his people, and his own congregation, that he must turn and preach the truth and quit deceiving the people with fables; he should be cut off from the face of the earth, both he and his posterity. And he said that this should be so plainly manifest, that all should know it. At this, many gentlemen took out of their pockets their tablets, and began to take notes of the prophesy; and Mr. Smith noticing them, “Yes,” said he, “write it on your tablets; write it in a book; write it in your memory; for as sure as God ever spoke by my mouth all these things shall come to pass.” [p. 228]