Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 75: August 28, 1913

Then followed two months of closest investigation and deepest study. I read the Mormon literature, compared the teachings there with the teachings of the Bible, attended their meetings, and finally, being fully convinced that truth was with the Mormons, I applied for baptism and admission into their Church.

The first time I met with the elders, I followed their advice, and prayed to God for a testimony of the truth, and that same night. In answer to earnest prayer, I received the assurance within my soul that the Mormon Church was, indeed, the Church of God. But I would not accept the knowledge, I could not, I fought against it with all my available powers. It could not be, it could not 1 The way to heaven through the Church that was every where spoken against! The Mormons God's chosen people Must I join forces with them, and hear my name spoken in terms of contempt and derision It was too much to ask. I could not do it. And yet within my ears sounded ever the words, What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul, and after all, what should I lose? And would not the salvation of my soul more than compensate? And so the battle was fought, truth conquered, and I became a Mormon. The day I was baptized (and in spite of all the world says in derision to the contrary, the truth was prevailing, for four men were baptized on the same occasion, and one little girl), one of the elders (d. G. Selman), addressing the meeting at night, turned to us who had that day taken our stand for God and truth and said, Don't think that the battle is ended, for you it has only just begun.

I, for one, was soon to prove the truth of those words. During the two months investigation I had said nothing to my friends of what was taking place within my mind. I felt it was a matter that rested entirely with my own soul and with God. I realized fully that I had a soul to save, and that none but God could aid me, and so I said no word. But when the battle was won, and I had done that from which there was no returning, then I wrote and told my friends What had taken place.

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