"Thus fell the noble David W. Patten as a martyr for the cause of God and he will receive a martyr's crown. He was valiant in the testimony of Jesus Christ while he lived upon the earth. He was a man of great faith and the power of God was with him. He was brave to a fault, even too brave to be preserved. He apparently had no fear of man about him. "Many of the sick were healed and devils cast out under his administration." In closing his account of the tragedy, the Prophet Joseph says: "Brother David W. Patten was a very worthy man, beloved by all good men who knew him. He was one of the Twelve Apostles, and died as he lived, a man of God, and strong in the faith of a glorious resurrection, in a world where mobs will have no power or place." With David's wish, formerly expressed to him, to die as a martyr, no doubt in mind, the Prophet Joseph, at the funeral on October 27, 1838, pointing to his lifeless body, testified: "There lies a man that has done just as he said he would--he has laid down his life for his friends." And one mightier has said: "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friend." A fit ending of a glorious career! The remains were laid to rest with military honors at Far West, and the grave is now unmarked and unknown, but of the noble spirit, the Lord, in a revelation a few years subsequent to his departure, vouchsafed this intelligence: "David Patten I have taken unto myself; behold, his Priesthood no man taketh from him; but verily I say unto you, another may be appointed unto the same calling." And again, in speaking of Lyman Wight, who succeeded David in the Apostleship, the Lord says: "That when he shall finish his work, that I may receive him unto myself, even as I did my servant David Patten, who is with me at this time." If, then, to repeat, we say that great men are the Lord's object lessons to the world by whom He holds out to mankind the truths committed to their generation, what of the life before us? From the time David heard of the Gospel, his earnest nature entered with full purpose of heart upon the work he was sent from the courts on high to perform, his whole soul was given over to faithfully bearing the message of his life: GOD GIVES US ALL THE POWER WE HAVE, and though in the one desire to give his life as a martyr, it may be said he fell short of the ideal: THY WILL NOT MINE BE DONE; yet, without a doubt, in making up the roll of his noble and great ones, Time will place next to those of the Prophet and Patriarch martyrs, Joseph and Hyrum Smith, the name of the first Apostolic martyr, David W. Patten. End of Project Gutenberg's Life of David W. Patten, by Lycurgus A. Wilson