Ye know, to see Joseph when he's quite by himself, ye'd be surprised to see how desponding he is by nature.

He's that desponding he was real surprised, real right down taken by surprise, when he heard that Mr.Rigdon, so clever a minister as he was, and of the Campbellites too, had been baptized and a hundred and twenty-seven of his congregation with him.

(That was first off, and ye know how many he's brought in since.) He could hardly believe it; he says, 'It seems as if I hadn't any faith at all.' And that night he couldn't sleep, but just walked up and down, and two revelations came to him before morning, and one of them addressed to Rigdon, so Joseph knows of course he's got the right thing in him.

Then his education, too; he's got a sight more education than Cowdery.

Joseph thinks a deal of education." "I don't like him." Susannah sat upright; her hands were busy with the baby upon her knee.
"Well, I dunno." Emma spoke meditatively.