Account of My Ancestors--My Birth--Remarkable Vision--Its Effect Upon Those Who Heard of It--My Father and Grand-Father Become Interested in Reading the Scriptures--My Grand-Father's Prophecy--His Dislocated Shoulder Replaced by the Power of God--My Grand-Father's Vision and Death--"Mormon" Elders Visit the Neighborhood--I Go to Hear Them Preach--Believe Their Doctrines--My Father Opposed to the Elders. CHAPTER II. My Covenant With the Lord--My Sister Desires Baptism--My Brother's Threat--Visit of Hyrum Smith--My Sister Baptized--I Break My Covenant--My Father's Dream--My Baptism--Exhortation to the Young--Spiritual Gifts Received--Meeting Disturbed by Mobs--After Talking to Them They Become Quiet and Leave the Place--Some of the Mob Join the Church--The Leader of the Mob Dies Suddenly--Mobbings Cease. CHAPTER III. Ordained to the Priesthood--Invited to Preach--I Make Up a Sermon on my Way--Sermon Apparently a Failure to Me--My Hearers Satisfied With It--Abused by a Baptist Minister--He Desires a Sign--A Sign Promised and Fulfilled--Blessings Received in the Kirtland Temple--Words of the Prophet Joseph--Their Fulfilment--An Incident in Missouri--Literal Fulfillment of a Prediction Uttered by Joseph Smith--His Patriotism--Strange Phenomenon--Its Effect. CHAPTER IV. A Case of Palsy Healed--Its Effect on the People--Mr. Bridge's Unbelief--The Case of Widow Cade--She is Partially Cured by Faith--Tempts the Lord and Dies--I am Called on a Mission to Europe--Terrible Sea-storm--The Prayers of the Elders are Heard and the Winds Cease--We Arrive Safely in a Badly-Shattered Ship. CHAPTER V. I Go to Switzerland--God's Power Manifested in My Behalf--A Prophecy Fulfilled--Condition of the Swiss Mission--Where Elders were Expelled Evil Spirits Take Possession--Karl G. Maeser Writes Me a Letter--I Return it, Thinking it is a Ruse to Entrap Me--I Receive it Again-- Brother Maeser's Faith and Baptism--Elders Partake of Poisoned Food--Are Restored to Health--My Mission Ends. NEWEL KNIGHT'S JOURNAL. CHAPTER I. My Birth and Parentage--My Father's Business--He Employs Joseph Smith, Jun.--Character of this Youth--I Start in Business for Myself--My Health Compels Me to Change Occupation--Joseph Smith, Jun., a Constant Visitor at My House--He Relates His Experience--His Statements Leave no Room for Doubt in Me--He is Bitterly Persecuted. CHAPTER II. Joseph Smith's Perseverance--Organization of the Church--Joseph Smith Visits Me--His Own Account of His Visit--He Asks Me to Pray--I Refuse--I Go to the Woods and Try to Offer up Prayer--Am Attacked by a Devil--Curious Actions while thus Afflicted--The Prophet Casts the Devil Out--The Spirit of God Shows Me Glorious Things--This Miracle Witnessed by Many Persons. CHAPTER III.