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Author: Truman Madsen
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Truman G. Madsen
Having walked into a grove on a beautiful spring day, a fourteen-year-old boy shortly afterwards walked out of it a prophet. Despite almost constant persecution he was faithful to that experience until twenty-four years later he was gunned down by an evil mob.
Many books have been written about Joseph Smith. This one-the outcome of a deep love for the subject and years of research -selects specific facets of or approaches to Joseph Smith's greatness and illumines them with the author's informed discernments and insights. Topics discussed in this way include Joseph Smith's first vision; his personality and character; his spiritual gifts and attributes; his varied trials; his abilities as speaker and teacher; his Kirtland Temple experience; doctrinal developments in the Nauvoo era, including temple ordinances; and the last months and martyrdom. Themes range from sublime concepts contained in the King Follett discourse to the Prophet's simple home-life pleasures-such as singing to a fretting child while bouncing her on his knee. The book is filled with little-known, fascinating detail about both events and the Prophet's effect on people and circumstances, mostly taken from accounts of contemporaries. And the whole is rounded off by the penetrating comments of a mature scholar who portrays it all in a style and language that delights the layman. The result is a vivid portrayal of this remarkable man and prophet in a fresh approach that rivets the reader's interest.
Those who knew Joseph Smith best testified that "he lived great, and he died great in the eyes of God and his people." This eminently re-readable book will serve to confirm and strengthen that conviction for Latter-day Saints today.
Pages: 202
