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John Taylor quietly was serving as a Methodist minister who gathered family and friends to study the scriptures and seek perfection in their lives. Then came apostle Parley P. Pratt from America. Elder Pratt bore a prophetic mantle to begin the teaching of the gospel in foreign lands. He found these Toronto students of the scriptures. Not only did this group prepare relatives in England for acceptance of the gospel the following year, but two years later, John Taylor, as an apostle himself, went with the Twelve to England. When he returned, he began a close association with the Prophet Joseph Smith, serving as the lead editor of the Church’s main religious and civil publications. He had a beautiful tenor voice. At Carthage jail, somewhat reluctantly, he twice sang the new hymn “A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief” only moments before the martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum. He was savagely wounded by four bullets. But saved by the providence of God, he lived to become the fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was its only president to die in exile.