22
I soon found, however, that my telling the story had excited a great deal of prejudice against me among professors of religion, and was the cause of great
persecution, which continued to increase; and though I was an obscure
boy, only between fourteen and fifteen years of age, and my
circumstances in life such as to make a boy of no consequence in the
world, yet men of high standing would take notice sufficient to excite
the public mind against me, and create a bitter persecution; and this
was common among all the sects—all united to persecute me.
23
It caused me serious reflection then, and
often has since, how very strange it was that an obscure boy, of a
little over fourteen years of age, and one, too, who was doomed to the
necessity of obtaining a scanty maintenance by his daily labor, should
be thought a character of sufficient importance to attract the attention
of the great ones of the most popular sects
of the day, and in a manner to create in them a spirit of the most
bitter persecution and reviling. But strange or not, so it was, and it
was often the cause of great sorrow to myself.
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