A leading church historian hopes someone will discover the full transcript of a sermon Joseph Smith gave on the East Coast. Last week’s story about the discovery of Saint Augustine’s lost sermons raised an immediate question for ChurchBeat: Will anyone ever discover lost Joseph Smith sermons? That wasn’t Joseph Smith. What that means, though, is you’re not going to find a sermon notebook where Joseph Smith wrote down his talks.” In February 1840, Joseph Smith spoke publicly in Washington, D.C., with few Latter-day Saints in attendance.